THE 



MELROSE MEMORIAL 



THE 



ANNALS OF MELROSE 



COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, MASSACHUSETTS 



GREAT REBELLION OF 1861— '65 



C|) By Elbridge H. Goss 



PRIVATELY PRINTED BY SUBSCRIPTION 
1868 



ALFRED MUDGE & SON, 

PRINTERS, 

34 SCHOOL STREET, BOSTON. 






TO THE 



BOYS IN BLUE, 



WHO WENT FORTH TO BATTLE, 



MELROSE, 



THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. 



PREFACE. 



It has been the aim of the writer of the following pages to 
gather such facts and incidents pertaining to the action of our 
town, and of its citizens, in the late Rebellion, as may be inter- 
esting to us and to those who shall occupy our places hereafter. 
With what interest would any of us read a similar collection of 
facts concerning the action of our native town in the Revolu- 
tionary war, or the war of 1812 ; the sacrifices .it made, the 
heroes it furnished, and the martyrs to justice and liberty then 
offered upon their country's altar. 

Soldiers' monuments are appropriate memorials ; and it is 
well that the memory of our dead heroes should be thus em- 
balmed. May scores of monumental piles be yet reared through- 
out the length and breadth of the land, reminding us and fu- 
ture generations of their bravery, of their virtues, and of their 
patriotism. And where such monument has or has not been 
raised, it would be a desirable fact, and an interesting matter 
of history, if each town, or city, would have a published record 
of the items of its individual action in the late war. Future 
generations would turn the leaves of such annals with pleasure 
and gratitude. 

Two years and a half had passed away after the close of the 
great contest between Right and Wrong, before the task of 
gathering the material for this volume was commenced. Had it 
been undertaken sooner, or begun and continued during the 
progress of the war, the labor would have been easier, and, 
probably, some facts which have been forgotten, and the whirl 
of time has confused, might have been recorded. Undoubtedly 



VI PREFACE. 

many interesting incidents, which were not minuted at the time 
of their occurrence, have passed away never to be recalled. 

Words of encouragement have ever been given by all my 
fellow-citizens whenever mention was made of this undertak- 
ing ; and when information has been sought it has been very 
readily given. My thanks are due to the Selectmen of the town, 
past and present, to many of our Soldiers, and to Adjutant- 
General Cunningham and his gentlemanly clerks, for informa- 
tion given and favors granted. 

The well-known historian, Mr. Benson J. Lossing, author of 
the deservedly popular " Pictorial Field Book of the Revolu- 
tion," "Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812," "Pictorial 
History of the Civil War," " Washington's Home," and many 
other useful historical works, says, in a letter to me : 

" I am glad you have undertaken the work you mention. 
These local histories will form the solid and reliable materials 
for the use of future historians, and cannot be too minutely 
given. They will be of immense value. I hope you will make 
thorough work. Give the name of every man who took up 
arms for his country, with brief biographies of the leading ones. 
You will thus leave an enduring legacy of honor to their pos- 
terities." 

Believing that something of this kind was due to our town 
and to those who went forth to fight our battles, this work has 
been accomplished during moments of limited leisure, and is now 
submitted to my fellow-citizens with the hope that its faults 
and deficiencies, — and no one knows better than the writer 
that they are many, — may be kindly overlooked, and with the 
wish that some abler pen than mine had been prompted to per- 
form the task. 

E. H. G. 

Melrose, Sept. i8th, 1868. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 

I. Index to Names of Melrose Citizens xi. 

II. Index to Regiments and Batteries xxvii. 

III. Index to Battles and Engagements xxviii. 

I. 

1 86 1. Opening of the Rebellion. — Call for Three Months' Troops. — 
The Sixth Massachusetts Regiment. — Governor Andrew's Address. — 
Our Three Months' Men in the Fourth and Fifth Regiments. — The 
Massachusetts Troops. I 

II. 
l86l continued. Call for Three Years' Men. — Our First Town Meeting. 

— Votes passed. — Enlistments. — Our Men in the Thirteenth Massachu- 
setts Regiment. — Second Regiment. — Twelfth Regiment 12 

III. 

186 1 continued. Call for more Troops. — Our Men in the Sixteenth 
Regiment. — Seventeenth Regiment. — Eighteenth. — Twentieth. — Twen- 
ty-Second. — Twenty-Third. — Twenty- Fourth. — Twenty-Sixth. — Thir- 
tieth. — Thirty-Second. — Ninety-Ninth New York Regiment. — Second 
Battery. — Third Battery. — Fourth Battery. — Fifth Battery. — First 
Cavalry Regiment. — Number of Men furnished in 1861. 20 

IV. 

1862. Third Call for Troops. — War Meeting. — Town Meeting. — 
Action taken and Votes passed. — Our Men in the Eleventh Regiment. 

— Thirty-Third. — Thirty-Eighth. — Thirty-Ninth. — First Heavy Artil- 
lery. — Ninth Battery. — Thirteenth Battery. — Second Cavalry. — Third 
Cavalry. 37 

V. 

1862 continued. Call for Nine Months' Men. — War Meetings. — Town 
Meeting. — Action taken and Votes passed. — Our Men in the Fifth Regi- 
ment. — Forty-Second. — Forty-Third. — Forty-Fourth. — Forty-Fifth. 

— Forty-Eighth. — Fiftieth. — Number of Men furnished in 1S62. 54 



Vlll CONTENTS. 



VI. 



1863. Conscription Act. — Another Call for Troops. — Town IMccting. — 
Our Recruiting Committee. — Our Men in the Fifteenth Regiment. — 
Fifty-Fourth. — Fifty-Sixth. — Fith-Ninth. — Third Heavy Artillery. — 
Fourth. — Number of Men furnished in 1S63. 7^ 

VII. 
1S64-5. Town Meetings. — Votes passed. — Injunction. — Recruiting 
Fund Meetings. — Citizens' Subscription. 82 

VIII. 

1S64. Call ibr One Hundred Da}-s' Men. — Our Men in Fifth Regiment. 
— Sixth. — Eighth. — SLxiieth. — Ninety Days' Men. — Seventh Unat- 
tached Company. — One Year's Men. — Sixty-First Regiment. 93 

IX. 

1S61— 5. Na^7. — Non-residents credited to Melrose. — Our Men in Naval 
Service. 99 

X. 

The Draft of 1S63. — Names of the Drafted. — Draft Celebration. — Draft 
of 1S64. — Names of the Drafted. — Substitutes for Enrolled Men. — 

Representative Recruits. 109 

XI. 

1S61— 5. \Vhole number of Men fiimished. — Our Surplus. — Quotas. 123 

XII. 

1S61— 5. Relief of Soldiers and their Families. — State Aid. — Subscrip- 
tions by Citizens and Churches. — Various methods taken for showing our 
good wilL • 130 

XIII. 

Our *' Roll of Honor." — Obituary Notices. — George J. Morse. — George 
T. Martin. — Henry F. Fuller. — Martin Greene. — William H. Macey. — 
Sidney B. Morse, z± — WilHam F. Baxry. — John P. Shelton, — Thomas 
H. Stevens. — Edmund W. Davis. — Jonas G. Brown. — Benjamin 
Lynde. — Nathan H. Brand. — Richard Lever. — Augustus Green. — 
Albert W. Crockett — James R. Howard. — Francis Peabody. — George 
E. RichardsoiL — Benjamin F. Wilde. — John E. Sdlphen. — George 
W. Lynde. — William F. Krantz. 137 



CONTENTS. LX 

XIV. 

In. Rebel Prisons. — Forty-Second Regiment. — ArchfhaTd Bogle. — Henry 
H. Jones. — George E. Richardson. — Albert W. Crockett — William 
H. Eastman. — Eldnmnd W. Davis. — George W. Batclielder. — John L. 
Cbamiers. — Benjamin. F. York. — Frederick W. Krantz. — George W. 
Eniot. — John K Qninn. — Henry Stone. — .^ndesonville. i S 5 

XV. 

Close cf me Rebellion. — Fall of Richmond. — Death of PresiderLt l.u:c:in. 

— FaneraL Cerem.onies. — Rev. Henry Bakers -A-ddress. zci 

XVL 

Miscellaneous. — Cost of the War to Town. — To Citizens. — List of Town. 
Officers. — Valuation. — Table of Debt. — Table of Bounties. — Of if en. 

— Destruction, of Rebel Blockade Rmmer. — Farragur's Naval Victory at 
Mobfle. — Incidents. — Articles Exchanged. 219 

XVIL 

List of Commissioned Officers. — Alphabeticil Roil of Melrose Soldiers. 

— ilelrose M/3L on otiier Quotas. 241 



APPENDIX. 

A. Certificate of a Non-resident Recruit 277 

B. Form for Payment of Bounty 277 

C. Certificate of Consent to the Enlistment of a JEnor . . . 27S 

D. List of Citizens liable to Draft in 1S63 279 

E. Exemption Certificates 2S5 

F. Exemption. — Substitute for Enrolled Man .... 2S7 

G. Receipt and Certificate — Representative Recruit . . . 2S9 

H. Instructions to Enrolling Officer 290 

L Discharge Papers 291 

J. Town -A.ction, Nor. 3, 1868 .... .-^2 

b 



INDEX 



NAMES OF MELROSE CITIZENS. 



SOLDIERS IN SMALL CAPITALS. 



A. 

Page. 

Abbott, Benjamin F., M. D 90, 222 

Adams, John Q . . 89, 283 

Alden, David A 118,279 

Allen, John L 87,114,279 

Allen, William H 86, 279 

Anderson, John H. L . 96, 118, 244, 279 

Anderson, Leonard B • . 62, 244 

Andrews, Edwin A 32, 244 

Andrews, John L 89 

Astle, Abel, M. D 90 

Astle, James 89, 113,279 

Atwood, Joel 89 

Atwood, Sullivan C 90, 279 

Avery, Ephraim 222 

Avery, John Q. A 283 

B. 

Babb, Walter 56,83,89,113,279 

Bacon, George A 40( 5^ 

Baker, Rev, Henry 211,212,214 

Baldwin, John 86, 283 

Banfield, Addison W. 56, 279 

Barker, Josiah H 91 

Barker, Samuel 89, 283 

Barnard, John M. Jr 59, 244 



Xll INDEX. 

Page. 

Barnes, Rev. William S 211, 212, 213, 225 

Barrett, Artemas 88, 120, 222, 225 

Barrett, Augustus 86, 283 

Barrett, Charles 59, 244 

Barrett, Charles L. 59, 244 

Barrett, David A. 272 

Barrett, Henry W. 112,279 

Barrett, Jonathan 88,113,279 

Barrett, James A. 87, 279 

Barron, Elliot F. 66, 244 

Barron, Henrv 27, 244 

Barry, Royal P 63, 90, 244, 278 

Barry, William F 15, 43, 139, 149, 244 

Bartlett, George W 88, 283 

Bartlett, Nathaniel J 86,112,279 

Batchelder, George W 9, 27, 31, 187, 242, 244 

Batchelder, Peter 89 

Beckett, James M. . ' 87, 222 

Biathrow, Franklin 279 

Bickford, Ira H 86, 283 

BicKFORD, Nelson W. 40, 47, 244 

Biffin, James 118,279 

Bigelow, Liberty 88 

Bird, Henry S. 283 

Bishop, Daniel H. 279 

Blaisdell, Charles H. 87, 114,279 

Blake, John 222 

Blanchard, Samuel D 92 

Boardman, Charles 59, 88, 244 

Boardman, George F 88, 224, 283 

Boardman, William W 283 

BomvELL, Henry A 28, 100, 244 

Bogle, Archibald .... 23,35,70,80,187,189,241,244 

Bowker, Charles F go 

Bowker, Joel 87 

Bowker, Joseph C 91 

Brackett, Gilbert A 279 

Bradford, Erastus F. 87, 283 

Brand, Nathan H. . . • 40, 50, 140, 246 

Brooks, Augustus 91^ 2S3 

Brown, Benjamin . . 2S3 



INDEX. Xlll 

Pace. 

Brown, George E 90, 279 

Brown, Increase H. Jr 283 

Brown, John 283 

Brown. Jonas G 66, 139, 159, 246 

Brown, Laroy 279 

Brown, Oren 113.279 

Bryant, Dexter . . , 122, 279 

Bryant, Hon. Napoleon B 13,40,43,56,73,86,283 

Bryant, Thomas O 59> 246 

BuFFUM, Adelbert A. 29, 246 

Buffum, C. Edgar 87 

Buffum, Carlon 91. 283 

Bugbee, Francis 222 

Bugbee, Samuel S. 87, 283 

Burgess, William B. . . 13, 42, 43, 73, 82, 89, 132, 223, 224, 278 

Burnham, George P 223 

Burnham, Oliver R 94, 246 

Burnham, Paschal E 59, 91, 246 

Buttrick, John P 91 

BuTTRicK, John W 58, 88, 246 

C. 

Chadbourne, Thomas W. . .89, 225 

Chambers, John L. 195, 272 

Chandler, Roswell W 35, 246 

Chapin, Calvin N 90, 283 

Chapin, Joseph A 51, 246, 277, 278 

Chase, Daniel G 283 

Chase, Daniel L 113,280 

Chase, Ede K 58, 246 

Chase, Sanford W 2S0 

Cheever, Augustus L. . . . . '. . . 76, 114, 246, 280 

Chipman, George A 63, 89, 94, 243, 246 

Chute, Robert J 87 

Clark, Frederic F 59, 248 

Clark, Colonel John H. 13, 39,43,55,73,82,83,87, 116,118, 132, 224,278 

Clark, William 90, 118, 283 

Cleaveland, Nathan S 2S3 

Close, Emery 91 

Cobb, Elisha W 4°, 4i, 2S3 

Cobb, John W 88, 283 



XIV INDEX. 

Page. 

Coburn, Lewis G 88, 131, 283 

Coburn, Lucius 280 

Cociiran, Jonathan 222, 223 

Cochran, Nelson 56, 88, 222, 225 

Coffin, Galen 283 

Collins, Walter R 89 

Connell, James 283 

Conway, Daniel 91, 283 

Conway, John Jr 88 

Coolidge, Charles G 283 

Coolidge, Rev, J. A. 223 

Cook, William 113, 280 

Cooper, Rev. James 14, 223 

Corson, Frederic U 59, 248 

Corson, George G 280 

Cowhey, Thomas 91 

Cox, James P 66, 248 

Crocker, John H 15,114,132,248,280 

Crocker, Joseph C. 62, 248 

Crockett, Albert W 24, 140, 171, 187, 248 

Crockeit, George F 33, 171, 248 

Crosby, Anthony 40, 41, 87 

Crowley, Jeremiah 86, 283 

Curriea, Charles M 283 

Currier, James C 224 

Currier, John H 22, 248 

Curtis, Samuel 283 

Cutting, William H. Jr 63, 248 

D. 

Dame, Frank O. gg 

Daniels, J. B. oq 

Davie, George 28^ 

Davis, Charles L 202, 272 

Davis, Edmund W 27,114,140,187,201,248,280 

Davis, James L 59, 98, 202, 248 

Davis, John E 59, 202, 248 

Davis, Loami G 46, 77, 202, 248 

Dawes, Ambrose 15, 40, 157, 248 

Dawes, Richard C 62, 250 

Dearborn, Samuel O. 56, 89 223 



INDEX. X^ 

Page 

Dennis, Rev. J- S. 

^ .40, 48, 250 

Deshon, Francis .r 

, r^ . . 66, 250 

Dix, Joseph O „ 

„T 1 1"?. 200 

Dodge. James W ,1.118,280 

Donalavy, William '' 

V. r. ... 60, 250 

Double, Edmund B •" 

• 283 

Dow, Milo S -> 2=;o 

Drayton, J. Spencer °' -^^' ^ 

Dyer, John A. " 

Dyer, N. Mayo ... 15. 7o, 80, 100, 228, 231, 236, 243. =50 

E. 

EARL. WILLIAM H 49.104,250 

Eastman, William H 32.187,194,250 

Edgerly, Obadiah S g^, 2 3 

Edgerly, Peter ' " -^ 

Edmands, Bradford 

Edmonds, Artemas B " 

^117 ... 187, 272 
Elliot, George W 

ELLIS, JACOB M ^!'"']'X 

Ellis, Martin 

E"^^'^-^;:^^^'^ .* .'86,*222.225 

Emerson. George 00., 

Emerson. George 2d 40,41,120.225,283,-87 

Emerson, George W 40,41,56,112,280 

Emerson. Isaac ~ 

Emerson. Isaac Jr. . 40, 41, 43. 56, 73, 82, 85, I33, 222, 224. 225. 283 

T /- ... 60. 98. 250 

Emerson, James G « -, 

Emerson, James W „ '^'' '^ ' ^0° 

EMERSON, JOSEPHS 98,114.250.280 

Emerson, R. Watson 40.41,56.86,280 

TIT ... 114, 280 

Emery. Joshua Jr 

Esty, Charles F 

EVANS, THOMAS C 40,63,250 

F. 

Fairbanks, David 39,122,224 

Fairbanks. John W J""' ^'' f 

^ . , 1 T u A ... 86, 112, 280 

Fairbanks. Joseph A ' ' 

r^ r\ . . 77. 250. 280 

Fargo. Charles 8 -'S 

Farnsworth, George W " ' ~ 



XVI 



INDEX. 



Farnsworth, William J. 
Farrell, Michael 
Ferdinand, Jasper F. 
Fernald James H. . 
Fessendcn, George F. 
Finnegan, Dennis . 
Finnegan, Edward 
Finnegan, William 
Fennerty, Thomas 
Fisher, George W. 
Fletcher, George M. . 
Flint, Rufus H. 
Forsythe, George R. . 
Foss, James T. 
Foster, Daniel W. 
Fountain, Francis . 
Freeman, Leander T. 
Freeman, Thomas 
French, Alonzo 
Fuller, George P. 
Fuller, Henry F. . 
Fuller, Lorin L. 
Fuller, William A. 
Fuller, William E. 
Furneaux, Charles 



Page. 

222, 223 

. 66, 250 

91 

280 

• . . 283 

91, 280 

114, 280 

91, 280 

280 

22, 91, 252 

13. 43. 73. 82, 86, 133, 222, 223, 224, 225, 278 
222, 223 



63. 

85. 



"3. 



. 66, 
22, 139, 143. 



104, 114, 118, 243. 252, 

82, 83, 222, 223, 

. 88, 



G. 



44. 56, 85, 131, 223, 



Gallagher, Richard 

Gardner, Elbridge 4'. 43. 88, 

Gateley, John 

Gilman, G. W 

Gilman, Tristram 

Gilmore, William M. ... 

Gooch, Hon. Daniel W. 
Gooch, Mrs. Daniel W. . 
Goodwin, Joseph .... 

Gordon, Curtis S 

Gordon, William F. . . . 
Goss, Allen C. . . . ■ 

Goss, Elbridge H. ... 

Gould, Albert A. . . . 



32, 

222, 

91, 



90, 

283, 



"3. 



118, 

"3. 
112, 

87. 
40,41,88, 113, 155, 176, 280, 

91, 



56, 



252 

283 

90 

280 

91 

280 
252 
252 
223 
280 
224 
280 



252 
223 

283 
90 
283 
280 
292 

134 

280 
280 
280 
283 
292 
2S1 



INDEX. XV 11 

Page. 

Gould, Levi S 56. S5, 86, 225, 280 

Greeley, William P -83 

Green, Aaron 92, 223, 224, 225 

Green, Augustus 28, 140, 169, 252 

Green, Elbridge 9°. 222, 223, 225 

Greene, Benjamin F. 87, 2S0 

Greene, Joseph H. 86 

Greene, Martin 18, 139, 252 

Grover, Andrew J, . 28,76,252,280 

Grover, George W. Jr 77,114,252,280 

Grover, John C 25, 252 

Grover, William W 94, 252 

Grundy, William . . . _ . . " 280 

H. 

Haley, Reuben T 92, 284 

Hamblet, James Jr 284 

Hammond, George 77,104,114,254,280 

Hare, Andrew 65, 254 

Hart, Abner B 62, 254 

Hart, George 86, 284 

Harvey, Franklin 104, 254 

Hawkins, John 280 

Hawkins, Thomas 119,284 

Haynes, Joseph W 25, 254 

Hayward, Daniel E 280 

Hayward, Jabez G 90, 284 

Harris Augustine 280 

Heald, S. W 86 

Heath, George W 39. 40, 120, 131, 284 

Hemmenway, George 89, 284 

Hemmenway, William 280 

Henderson, John H. B 114,134,280 

Heton, John 60, 254 

Hicks, Walter 284 

Higgins, John S 87, 131 

Hill, David 284 

Hill, William L 280 

Hodges, James D 284 

Hoeffner, Lewis G 284 

Holbrook, Joseph 119,223,284 

C 



XVIU INDEX. 

Page. 

Hollahan, Lawrence 280 

HoLLis, Henry P. 52, 254 

Holmes, Philip B 56, 131 

Hopkins, James S. 280 

Horn, James 284 

Houghton, Samuel S 85 

Howard, Avery B 33, 254 

Howard, Caleb 89, 222, 223, 224 

Howard, Caleb G 280 

Howard, James R 40,48,140,173,254 

Howard, Nathaniel 92 

Howard, Otis 280 

Howe, Francis E 32, 254, 280 

Howes, Jonathan C 112, 280 

Howes, Solomon L 91 

Hudson, Jarvis P 87,118,284 

Hurley, John 91 

Hyde, George S 60, 254 

I. 

Ingalls, Rev. John C. 136, 223 

Ingalls, Samuel, M. D 243, 254 

Ireson, Alonzo D. . . • 6c, 254 

Ireson, David A. 59, 254 

Irvine, Fayette J 281 

Isburgh, Charles H 40, 43, 55, 73, 83, 86, 133, 225, 284 

J- 

Jackson, Jacob F 21, 256 

Jackson, William H 49, 256 

Jackson, William P 15, 256, 281 

Jefferson, Daniel 87, 284 

Jenkins, Osmore 91 

Jones, Asa H. 89 

Jones, Charles S 40, 49, 256 

Jones, Henry H 14, 187, 256 

Jones, J. Wesley 36, 70, 80, 242 

Judkins, Roland C 59, 256 

JuNKiNS, Edwin W. 64, 256 

K. 

Kastner, Charles 131 

Keating, Thomas 281 

Keith, Charles E 89,113,281 



INDEX. XIX 

Page. 

Kelley, Farnsworth • . 2S4 

Kendall, Edward W. 22, 175, 243, 256 

Kendall, Sainuel E 284 

Kent, Elisha V 284 

Keyes, Silas 281 

KiLBY, Theophilus 15, 256 

King, George L 15, 256 

Kimball, Thomas J 88, 284 

Kirmes, Christopher 89, 2S4 

Knight, Edwin F 281 

Knights, Edward R 87, 222, 224, 281 

Knowles, Theodore L 40,41,113,281 

Krantz, Frederick W 46, 187, 203, 256 

Krantz, William F 140, 272 

L. 

Lane, Addison 90, 284 

Lamkin, Guy 223 

Lamson, William A 92, 284 

Larrabee, Charles 87 

Leavitt, Rufus 87, 284 

Leeds, Samuel 21, 258 

Leighton, William F 3, 258 

Leonard, Henry A. 87, 281 

Lever, Richard 74, 140, 258 

Linikin, Benjamin ........... 223 

Little, Edmund B 90, 284 

Littlefield, Gushing W 29, 258 

Littlefield, Walter Jr 86, 223, 284 

Littlehale, Henry A 281 

Locke, Simeon 86 

Long, Thomas A 85. S7 

Lord, Samuel 281 

Loring, Martin B 91, 284 

Lunt, George G. 281 

Lyall, David S 96, 258, 281 

Lyman, Henry H 66, 25S 

Lynch, John B 281 

Lynde, Alonzo V 86, 284 

Lynde, Alvin 90 

Lynde, Amos W 60, 97, 258 



XX INDEX. 

Page. 

Lynde, Benjamin 41, 4S, 140, 161, 258 

Lynde, Charles A 281 

Lynde, Charles B 60, 258 

Lynde, Charles P 90 

Lynde, Daniel A 281 

Lynde, George 91 

Lynde, George W 23, 141, 161, 183, 243, 258 

Lynde, James O. 120, 281 

Lynde, Leonard 88, 281 

Lynde, Sherman 35, 260 

Lynde, William 87, 284 

M. 

Macey, James iS, 260 

Macey, John S 23,104,175,260 

Macey, William H 139, 272 

Macomber, George, M.D 87 

Magoon, Sylvanus 119, 281 

Mansfield, George A 86, 225, 284 

Marcey, J. T 91 

Marshall, James 64, 260 

Marshall, Samuel 60, 260 

Martin, Charles H 202, 272 

Martin, George T. ... 47, 70, 78, 138, 179, 202, 242, 260 

Martin, Jeremiah 88, 222 

Martin, Jeremiah Jr 105, 202, 260 

Martin, William H 41. 48, 202, 260 

McAllister, Daniel W 28, 260 

McAllister, George H 66, 260 

McCafTerty, Michael A 56, 281 

McCoubry, Thomas 284 

McDonald, Angus 26, 260 

Mclntire, Joseph 88, 284 

McKay, Gurdon 9. -6, 35. 69. 243, 260 

McLaughlin, Frank M 105, 260 

McLaughlin, George W 64, 260, 278 

McLaughlin, Hiram 278 

McLaughlin, Hiram Jr. 95. 260 

McLenathan, Charles 281 

McMahan, Philip 24, 260 

McNish, Wickham C 85 



INDEX. XXI 

Pack. 

Mendum, Josiah P 56, 8S 

Merrick, Theodore B 225, 281 

Messenger, Charles A 89, 284 

Messenger, Frank A 40, 56, 86, 2S4 

Mitchell, George 105, 260 

Moore, Edward 91 

Morcomb, Henry P 281 

Morrison, Charles H 28, 47, 260 

Morrison, Seth 9, 260 

Morse, Andrew J. 131, 132,209 

Morse, George J 16, 76, 80, 138, 162, 236, 242, 260 

Morse, Sidney B. 2d 17, 139, 145, 162, 262 

Morse, William . 114,281 

Morse, William F. 86, 113, 281 

Morton, Daniel 88, 284 

Mosely, Randolph L 28 1 

Munn, Lawrence K 90, 281 

MuNN, Thomas J. 16, 262 

Munroe, Rev. William H 158, 223 

Murphy, Walter 91 

Murray, John . 281 

N. 

Nash, Gilbert 225 

Nevens, Edward P. 223, 225 

Newhall, Edward B 88,119,281 

Newhall, George 87, 222, 224, 2S4 

Newhall, Henry B 56, 88, 281 

Newhall, John 284 

Nichols, G:eorge G 78. 97. 242, 262 

Nichols, Smith W. Jr 36, 70, 80, 105, 107, 243, 262 

Norris, Henry A 42, 43, 56, 86, 223 

Norton, Daniel Jr 56, 85, 284 

Norton, John R 281 

Noyes, George N. . . ' 87,223,225 

Noyes, George O 41, 48, 262 

Noyes, Moses A ' . . . .90 

P. 

Page, Moses S. 95,113,262,281,291 

Paine, John T 223 

Parker, Edward 281 



XXll INDEX. 

Pags. 

Parker, Moses, M. D 40, 56, 87, 223, 225, 284 

Parsons, Rev. Wilson R 223 

Patterson, Alonso 89, 118, 281 

Paul, William F 118,281 

Peabody, Francis 23, 28, 140, 175, 262 

Peabody, Torrey 28, 262 

Peabody, Torrey Jr 25, 262 

Peck, Oren H 86,114,281 

Pemberton Calvin 284 

Pemberton, Lewis E 98, 264 

Perkins, Albert P 87, 284 

Perkins, Horatio N 88 

Perkins, James F 70, So, 107, 243, 264, 292 

Perkins, John Jr 64,118,264,284 

Phinney, Erastus O., M.D 223, 225 

Phinney, Stephen J 222 

Phippen, German S 223 

Pierce, Ansel B. 91, 281 

Pierce, Robert W 88, 281 

Pierce, William L .90 

Pike, Jacob F 49, 264 

Pilling, James L 97, 264 

Pollock, George W 88, 281 

Poole, William F 89, 126, 131, 220, 284 

Porter, Lucius L. D 113,281 

Pratt, Daniel S 35, 264 

Pratt, Dexter '90,281 

Pratt, Henry W 96, 264 

Prentice, Charles ......... 67, 264 

Prentice, Rev. George 281 

Prescott, Horace 40, 51, 264 

Prince, Albert G 25, 264 

Q- 

Quimby, Rev. George W 43> 44 

QuiNN, John E 31,172,187,264 

QuiNN, John H 3^264 

QuiNN, Patrick . * • 96, 264 

Quinn, Thomas • . . . . 282 

R. 

Rankin, Frederick W. A. Jr 88,113,282 

Richards, Aaron H 282 



INDEX. XXIU 

Page. 

Richardson, George E 41, 49, 140, 177. 187, 264 

Richardson, Hiram D 9° 

Richardson, John P 23, 264 

Richardson, Lewis H 90,113,282 

Richardson, William H 77i 266, 282 

Richmond, Rev. John B 225 

Ripley, Augustus 118,282 

Roach, Benjamin 9° 

Robbins, Charles 112,282 

Robbins, Charles G 2S5 

Roberts, Charles H 62, 266 

Roberts, John K -285 

Roberts, Joseph L. .' 282 

Robinson, Henry 9^> -~3 

Robinson, Henry J 9^ 

Robinson, Luther 225 

Robinson, Samuel A. 118,282 

Robson, John 89 

Rowe, Ai 91 

RowELL, Stephen P 26, 65, 266 

Russell, Daniel 4°. 4i» 122, 285, 289 

s. 

Sales, Ephraim 285 

Sanford, Joseph B 225, 282 

Sargent, George 90 

Sargent, George B. >ig 

Sargent, George C .87 

Sargent, Wingate P 85, 224, 2S5 

Sassard, Augustus 16, 266 

Sears, Elisha F 85, 282 

Seavey, Leonard C 33, 266 

Selee, Rev. Nathan P 90, 225 

Sessions, Rev. Alexander J. 223 

Severance, Sargent F 87, 285 

Severy, Solomon 89, 285 

Sewall, John S 56, 88, 285 

Sewall, Hon. Samuel E 85, 131, 225, 292 

Sewall, Stinson 224 

Shannon, Martin 29, 266 

Shelton, Albert F 16, 113,266,282 



XXIV INDEX. 

Page. 

Shelton. Charles W "... 17,150,152,266 

Shelton, John 87, 223 

Shelton, John P 17,40,139, 154,266 

Shelton, Richard H 113, 282 

Shelton, Stephen 71, 88, 225, 290 

Shelton, Stephen W. . . . 55» 56, 73. 83, 113, 133, 153, 158, 2S2 

Shelton, Thomas 39i 67, 96, 266 

Shepard, Charles H 222 

Shepard, Thomas 285 

Simonds, Charles H 223, 285 

Simonds, Joseph F. 17,53,236,242,266 

Simonds, Joseph R 24, 35, 70, 80, 144, 225, 242, 266 

Simonds, Joseph W 61, 96, 266 

Skinner, Charles E 34, 266 

Skinner, Glover 282 

Slocomb, Henry W. . . . 30, 268 

Slocum, Asa 222 

Small, Edward A 70, 80, 108, 243, 268 

Small, James 90 

Small, James M 282 

Smith, John £8, 224 

Smith, Rufus .... 39, 40, 44, 55, 56, 73, 83, 85, 133, 225, 282 

Smith, Thomas 9, 33, 268 

Smith, Wayland R 61, 268 

Snow, Joel 56, 91, 225 

Southwick, E. B 91 

Spaulding, Henry H 95, 268, 285 

Spinney, William K 282 

Sprague, Alfred W 89, 285 

Sprague, Henry 222, 223 

Sprague, Samuel Jr 19, 268 

Stantial, George C 89, 282 

Stantial, Thomas B ' . . .34, 268, 282 

Steele, Azel E 9° 

Stebbins, Thaddeus S 50, 268 

Stevens, Charles H 34, 243, 268 

Stevens, Thomas H 21, 139, 268 

Stevens, Edgar M 86, 285 

Stevens, Rev. Henry A 213,214,282 

Stilphen, John E 33, 141, 181, 268 

Stone, Calvin 90 



INDEX. XXV 

Page. 

Stone, George F 55i S6. 282 

Stone, Henry 49. 76, 187. 268 

Stone, William H 86,113,282 

Stratton, William D 90, 282 

Sturtevant, James S 9° 

Summers, Samuel F §9 

Sumner, Stephen S^> 268 

Sutton, Joseph P. B. . 282 

Sweetser, Thomas T 60, 268 

T. 

Tainter, George A 17. 268, 282 

Talbot, Rev. Josiah W 223 

Tay, Aaron 282 

Taylor, Fernando C 56,87,118,285 

Taylor, Franklin 222 

Taylor, Shubael L 222, 223 

Taylor, Marcus C 282 

Taylor, William 282 

Terwillager, Lyell T 89,118,285 

Thompson, John 114,118,272,282 

Thresher, James M 222 

Tourtellot, Samuel M 89, 282 

Tower, Benjamin 41, 48, 268 

Tower, John W 88, 282 

Towner, Levi C. 282 

Trask, Albert 282 

Trott, Andrew P 86,113,282 

Trowbridge, Henry E 225, 285 

Tucker, William L 4i> 5°. 268 

Turner, Henry 285 

Tyler, William N 95. 268 

u. 

Underwood, Benjamin 89 

Upham, Albert 282 

Upham, Asa 223 

Upham, Benjamin R. 285 

Upham, Charles F 91, 2S2 

Upham, Charles H 60, 270 

Upham, Freeman 222 



XXVI INDEX. 

Page. 

Upham, Henry W 97, 270 

Upham, Joshua 223 

Upham, Orne 285 

Upham, Osgood W 112,282,286 

Upham, Sylvanus 88, 282 

Upham, Timothy 118,282 

V. 

Varney, Cyrus 285 

Vaughn, William W 90, 282 

Vial, John 223 

Vinton, Aaron Jr 285- 

Vinton, Edwin A 60, 96, 270 

Vinton, Gray 96, 270, 285 

W. 

Waitt, Charles A 113, 282 

Waitt, John R 95, 270 

Walker, Benjamin R 91 

Warren, Ralph 86, 285 

Warren, William 282 

Watson, Frank 282 

Wells, Charles A 45, 270 

Wells, William H. . . . ' 89, 282 

Wentworth, Oliver T 92 

West, John 285 

Westgate, Joseph E 87 

Wheeler, Gardner 86,118,285 

Wheeler, George G 86, 285 

Wheeler, Robert 92, 285 

White, Alverse L 85 

White, Charles L. 40, 45, 270 

White, George E 223 

Whitney, Edward H 17, 270 

Whowell, John 285 

Whyte, Oliver 86, 285 

Wilde, Benjamin F 60, 141, 270 

Wilde, Joseph D 85, 282 

Wilcox, Daniel W 43, 120, 2S2 

Wilkinson, William N 222 

Woodward, David R. 119,285 



INDEX. 



XXV 11 



Page. 

Woodward, George 9^> ^^2 

Wyman, George W 95.272 

Wyman, Weston 9S> 272 

Wyman, William 9. 3°. 272, 282 

Y. 

York, Benjamin F 79. 1S7, 202, 272 

York, Josiah R 60, 98, 202, 272 

York, William B 60, 98, 202, 272 

Young, Isaiah A 5^. 89, 285 



II. 



index to regiments and batteries. 

Second Regiment, Infantry ^° 

Fourth " " 9 

Fifth " " 8, 58, 94 

Sixth " " 94 

Eighth " " 95 

Eleventh " " 45 

Twelfth " " 19 

Thirteenth " " H 

Fifteenth " " 74 

Sixteenth " " ........ 21 

Seventeenth " " 22 

Eighteenth " " 25 

Twentieth " " 26 

Twenty-Second Regiment, Infantry 26 

Twenty-Third " " 29 

Twenty-Fourth «' " 29 

Twenty-Sixth " " 3° 

Thirtieth " " 3° 

Thirty-Second " " 3 1 

Thirty-Third " " 4^ 

Thirty-Eighth " " 46 

Thirty-Ninth " " 49 

Forty-Second " " 5^ 

Forty-Third " " 61 

Forty-Fourth " " 61 



XXVIU INDEX. 

Page. 

Forty-Fifth Regiment, Infantry 63 

Forty-Eighth " " 65 

Fiftieth " " 65 

Fifty-Fourth " " 78 

Fifty-Sixth " " 79 

Fifty-Ninth " " 74 

Sixtieth " " 97 

Sixty-First " " 98 

Seventh Unattached Co., Infantry 97 

First Heavy Artillery Regiment 45 

Third " " " 76 

Fourth " " " 78 

Second Light Battery 32 

Third « " 33 

Fourth " " 33 

Fifth " " 34 

Ninth " " 50 

Thirteenth " " 51 

First Cavalry Regiment 34 

Second " " 51 

Third " " 53 

Fifth " " 243 

Ninety-Ninth New York Regiment, Infantry 31 



III. 



INDEX TO BATTLES AND ENGAGEMENTS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT. 

Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861 i 

Attack at Baltimore, April 19, 1861 ...... 8, 145 

Big Bethel, June 10, 1861 68 

First Bull Run, July 21, 1861 9, I43 

Forts St. Philip and Jackson, April 18-23, 1862 . . .38, 104, 107 

Fair Oaks, May 31, June I, 1862 21 

Gaines' Farm, June 27, 1862 27, 201 

Baton Rouge, Aug. 5, 1862 68, 181 

Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9, 1862 18, 68, 139 

Thoroughfare Gap, Aug. 28, 1862 151 

Groveton, Aug. 29, 1862 146, 150, 162 

Second Bull Run, Aug. 30, 1862 . . .16, 25, 28, 146, 151, 155, 163 



INDEX. XXIX 

Page. 

Chantilly, Sept. i, 1862 146, 150, 162 

South Mountain, Sept. 14, 1862 152 

Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862 . . 15, 16, 17, 19, 68, 139, 149, 152, 154, 169 

Little Washington, Nov. 3, 1862 29 

Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862 169, 239 

Kinston, Dec. 14, 1862 63, 64 

Galveston, Jan. i, 1863 -. 58, 60, 196 

Sabine Pass, Jan. 21, 1863 195 

Blount's Mills, April 9, 1863 1S4 

Bisland, April 13, 1863 174, 179 

Chancellorsville, May 2-5, 1863 . . . . . . . . 169 

Port Hudson, May 27 — July 9, 1863, 46, 48, 159, 161, 164, 174, 179, iSi, 194 
Gettysburg, July i, 2, 3, 1863 . . 15, 16, 45, 46, 51, 132, 169, 187, 203 

Batchelder's Creek, Feb. i, 1864 25, 171 

Olustee, Feb. 20, 1S64 189 

Red River Expedition, March 7 — May 20, 1864 . . -53, 181, 199 

Mansfield, or Sabine Cross Roads, April 8, 1864 199 

Wilderness, May 5, 6, 1864 76, 165, 166 

Spottsylvania, May 10-12, 1864 . . . .74, 76, 138, 140, 162, 166 

Bethesda Church, June 2, 3, 1864 28, 140, 169 

Cool Arbor, June 1-3, 1864 187 

Mine Explosion, July 30, 1864 79 

Mobile Bay, Aug. 5, 1864, 100, 102, 231 

Deep Bottom, Aug. 15, 1864 30 

Opequan, Sept. 19, 1864 53 

Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864 4S, 49, 177 

Fort Fisher, First Attack, Dec. 24, 25, 1864 . . 104, 105, 106, 108 

Fort Fisher, Second Attack, Jan. 13, 14, 15, 1865 . . 104. 106, loS 



I 



I. 

I86I. 



By our altars, pure and free 5 
By our laws' deep-rooted tree ; 
By the past's dread memory ; 
By our Washington — 

By our common kindred tongue, 
By our hopes — bright, buoyant, young, 
By the tie of country strong ; 
We will still be one. 

Samuel Gilinan. 

The first gun that spat its iron insult at Fort Sumter, smote 
every loyal American full in the face. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes. 



On the twelfth of April, 1861, the bloody hand of Trea- 
son was lifted against our Nationality, by the bombard- 
ment of " Fort Sumter," at Charleston, South Carolina. 
The " Stars and Stripes," which had hitherto waved aloft 
so gloriously, and so triumphantly, were now lowered at 
the impious behests of Slavery, and were trailing in the 
dust. Great was the surprise, intense the interest, and 
mighty the indignation which the telegraphic announce- 
ment of the fact created throughout the length and breadth 
of our land. By this infamous act every loyal heart was 
insulted ; and, at the reception of the news, every such 
heart was thrilled and stirred to its inmost recesses. 



2 THE MLLROSE MEMORIAL. 

By the insolent assertion of Jefferson Davis, on the i8th 
of February, 1861, — when the Confederate Government 
was instituted at Montgomery, Ala., two weeks previous 
to the inauguration of President Lincoln,^ — by the firing 
upon the " Star of the West " when on its errand of 
mercy, three months before the assault on " Fort Sum- 
ter," — by the boast of the Confederate Secretary of War, 
L. P. Walker, on the day of the bombardment,^ — by the 
treasonable and rebellious utterances of the Southern 
press,"^ — by the seizure of arsenals, forts and other public 
property, to the amount of many millions of dollars, — by 
all these acts it became painfully evident that Slavery had 
determined to break up this Government, or commence a 
devastating civil war, 

" The treasonable menaces, the Ordinances of Seces- 
sion, the acts of violence and incipient war, which followed 
the choice of Presidential Electors in i860, and culmi- 
nated into flagrant rebellion upon the accession of Abra- 
ham Lincoln to the Presidency, had attracted the anxious 
observation of mankind. Never in the history of civiliza- 
tion had interests so manifold, so transcendent, been 
involved or threatened by the internal disputes of any 
nation or people. The industry of thirty millions of 

' " The day of compromise is past, and those who now resist us shall 
smell Southern gunpowder and feel Southern steel." 

• * " No man can tell when the war this day commenced will end ; but I will 
prophecy that the flag which now flaunts the breeze here, will float over the 
dome of the old Capitol at Washington before the first of May. Let them 
try Southern chivalry and test the extent of Southern resources, and it may 
float eventually over Faneuil Hall in Boston." 

•* The Richmond Whig, with others, reiterated the threats of the Secession 
leaders, saying, " From the mountain tops and valleys to the shore of the 
sea, there is one wild shout of firm resolve to capture Washington City at 
all and every human effort." 



OPENING OF THE REBELLION. 3 

human beings, bond and free, the peace, happiness and 
welfare of every household of our continental Republic, 
the business of the busiest and richest people under the 
sun, the strength of Republican Government, the validity 
of Democratic ideas expressed in civil institutions, the 
success of Liberty, seemed trembling in the balance, 
where, poised against each other, were the struggling 
hope of continued peace, and the dismal presage of civil 
war. With the fortunes of the American Union were in- 
volved, by reason of the intimate complexity of all human 
relations in the social and political organization of modern 
times, the prosperity, if not the fate of many nations." ^ 

By the attack upon the heroic band of patriots under 
Major Anderson, at " Fort Sumter," all hope of a peaceful 
settlement of the issue was extinguished ; and, by its fall 
the mighty energy of the North was aroused. 

" Like some old organ peal, 

Solemn and grand. 
The anthem of Freedom 

Sweeps through the land." 

One purpose seemed to spring into existence instantly, 
and animate every heart — a determination to maintain 
our national existence at any and all sacrifices. " Heart 
throbbed to heart, lip spoke to lip, with a oneness of feel- 
ing that seemed like a Divine inspiration." 

On the instant we saw a " noble and puissant nation 
rousing herself like a strong man from sleep, and shaking 
her invincible locks." And, when on the 15 th of April, 
Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, issued 

^ Oration at the Dedication of the " Lack! and Wliitney Monument," by 
Gov. Andrew, at I.owell, June 17, 1S65, 



4 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

his Proclamation/ convening an extra session of Congress, 
and calling upon the States for seventy-five thousand 
troops to defend the capital and public property, the 
response was truly wonderful and glorious. 

" The plough, the loom, the counting-house, the bar, the 
pulpit, all the avocations of ordinary life were abandoned ; 
men of all conditions and circumstances flew to arms in 
response to the call of the nation's Chief Magistrate."^ 

Munificent offers of money were made to the Govern- 
ment by city corporations, banking institutions and pri- 
vate citizens all over the land. The whole loyal North 
responded in the spirit of " Our Country's Call," by Wil- 
liam Cullen Bryant. 

Lay down the axe, fling by the spade : 

Leave in its track the toiling plough ; 
The rifle and the bayonet-blade 

For arms like yours were fitter now ; 
And let the hands that ply the pen 

Quit the light task, and learn to wield 
The horseman's crooked brand, and rein 

The charger on the battle-field. 

And, thanks to the foresight, thoughtfulness and energy 
of Governor Andrew, Massachusetts was ready at once to 
send forward her regiments to defend the flag and save 
Washington. 

The first call upon Massachusetts for troops was by a 
telegram from Senator Wilson, April 15 th, requesting 
twenty companies of militia to be sent immediately to 
Washington, and there mustered into service. Official 



* This Proclamation was received by the Confederate conclave assembled 
at Montgomery, Ala., with " derisive laughter." 

'■^ History of the Old Sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers during 
its three Campaigns ; by John \V. Hanson, chaplain. 



THE SIXTH REGIMENT. 5 

requisition from the Secretary of War came later in the 
day. Governor Andrew at once issued his orders to the 
commanders of the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth 
Regiments. On the 17th the Sixth Regiment was on its 
way, and on and before nine o'clock of the next Sunday, 
the 2 1 St, — six days only after the call was made, — the 
Governor was enabled to say that " the whole number of 
regiments demanded" from Massachusetts were already 
either in Washington, or in Fortress Monroe, or on their 
way to the defence of the capital." And Edward Everett, 
speaking at Roxbury a few days later, said : " Wide as the 
summons has gone forth, it has been obeyed with an 
alacrity and unanimity that knew no parallel in our his- 
tory ; and the volunteers of Massachusetts have been the 
first in the field." 

To show with what willing obedience and cheerfulness 
our troops entered the service, it will be necessary only to 
specify a few facts connected with the Sixth Regiment, 
which was the "first to offer its services ; first to reach its 
State's capital ; first to reach the nation's capital ; first to 
inflict suffering on traitors; first to attest its sincerity 
with its blood." 

The official call was as follows : 

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, BOSTON, APRIL 1$, 1861. 

Col. Jones : — 

Sir, — I am directed by his Excellency the Commander-in- 
Chief, to order you to muster your regiment on Boston Com- 
mon, forthwith, in compliance with a requisition made by the 
President of the United States. The troops are to go to 
Washington. 

By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief. 

William Schouler, Adjutant General. 



O THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

Telegrams and expresses flew to all parts of the com- 
mand, notifying members of the regiment, which were 
scattered over four different counties, — Middlesex, Essex, 
Suffolk, and Worcester, — and in thirty or more cities and 
towns. Some of the officers. Colonel Jones among them, 
rode all night in this duty. 

" Up the hill-side, down the glen, 
Rouse the sleeping citizen : 
Summon out the might of men ! " 

" The ' Middlesex villages and farms ' then heard the 
pounding of hoofs and the alarum cry of danger, as in the 
olden time they had listened to the midnight ride of Paul 
Revere." 

Most of the men assembled on Boston Common early 
on the morning of the i6th; the rest within a few hours 
after. Captain John H. Dike,^ of the Stoneham Company, 
was aroused by a messenger at two o'clock on the morn- 
ing of the 1 6th, and the order given him. After reading 
it, he said, "Tell the Adjutant General that I shall be at 
the State House with my full command, by eleven o'clock." 
Captain Dike was there, with his company at the ap- 
pointed hour. 

Captain Harrison W. Pratt, of Worcester, received the 
order to join the Sixth Regiment, with his company, late 
in the afternoon of the i6th, and was in Boston with his 
full command on the morning of the 17th. 

The Major of the Sixth — Benjamin F.Watson, of Law- 
rence — had but two hours' notice ; but he locked the 



' Severely wounded in the thigh during the passage of the " Sixth " through 
Baltimore. 



GOVERNOR ANDREW'S ADDRESS. / 

door of his law office, leaving a large docket to look out 
for itself, and important business interests, and for four 
months saw and knew nothing of them. 

A member of one of the companies, living at Concord, 
said, "when the order came for me to join my company, 
sir, I was ploughing in the same field in Concord where my 
grandfather was ploughing when the British fired on the 
Massachusetts men at Lexington. He did not wait a 
minute ; and I did not, sir." 

Many other interesting instances might be mentioned, 
not only of this, but of all the regiments that then went 
forth, where lucrative positions and professional pursuits 
were given up and abandoned cheerfully by our citizens m 
order that they might go forth and defend their beloved 
country. 

The Sixth Regiment left Boston on the 17th, previous 
to which it was drawn up in front of the State House, to 
receive the regimental colors, and Governor Andrew's 
parting words. 

Soldiers, summoned suddenly, without a moment for prepara- 
tion, we have done all that lay in the power of men to do, — all 
that rested in the power of your State Government to do, — to 
prepare the citizen soldiers of Massachusetts for this service. 
We shall follow you with our benedictions, our benefactions, 
and prayers. Those whom you leave behind you we shall 
cherish in our heart of hearts. You carry with you our utmost 
faith and confidence. We know that you never will return until 
you can bring the assurances that the utmost duty has been per- 
formed, which brave and patriotic men can accomplish. 

This flag, sir, take and bear with you. It will be an emblem 
on which all eyes will rest, reminding you always of that which 
you are bound to hold most dear. 



8 THF. MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

In reply, Col. Jones said: — 

Your Plxcellency, you have given to me this flag, which is the 
emblem of all that stands before you. It represents my whole 
command ; and, so help me God, I will never disgrace it. 

Two days later, — on the ever memorable 19th of April, 
— the telegraph flashed the news over the land that the 
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment was fighting its way 
through the streets of Baltimore ; that four men had been 
killed and many more wounded. Still deeper was the 
shock ! More intense the feeling ! Massachusetts men 
the first martyrs to this terrible Rebellion ! Massachu- 
setts blood the first to flow, and on this anniversary of 
Concord's opening scene in days of yore ! The excite- 
ment increased ; business was neglected ; our Country's 
wrongs and our Country's danger was the most important 
and all absorbing topic of conversation. 

Like all the cities and towns throughout the loyal North, 
Melrose realized the excitement and felt the danger as 
thoroughly as any of them ; but being a small town, and 
having no military organizations, there was no immediate 
stir in our streets, — no sound of fife and drum, — nor the 
hurry and bustle consequent upon the gathering of mili- 
tary companies, that was experienced in larger communi- 
ties ; yet its citizens were aroused, and we had several 
patriotic young men that at once buckled on the armor 
and moved to the scene of conflict. 

Our neighboring town. South Reading, — now Wake- 
field — possessed a militia company, commanded by Cap- 
tain John W. Locke, and which belonged to the Fifth Mas- 
sachusetts Regiment, Colonel Samuel C. Lawrence ; and 



OUR THREE MONTHS MEN. Q 

into this company — B — most of our men that went into 
the field at this time enUsted. 

They were as follows : 

Batchelder, George W./ 

McKay, Gurdon,^ 

Smith, Thomas,^ 

Wyman, William.'* 

The Fifth Regiment performed its duties well, and was 
in the first "Battle of Bull Run," July 2i, 1861,^ and sus- 
tained itself in this fiery ordeal with great credit. It 
returned to Massachusetts immediately after this battle, 
and was mustered out of the service on the 31st of July. 
None of our men were wounded. 

In the Fourth Regiment, Colonel Abner B. Packard, 
Melrose had one man, in Co. F, viz : 

Morrison, Seth. 

This Regiment was stationed at " Fortress Monroe " 
during its three months' service. It returned to Massa- 
chusetts, and was mustered out July 22d, 1861. 

The whole number of troops sent forward by Massachu- 
setts, under this demand for three months' men, was three 
thousand seven hundred and thirty-six (3,736).^ They 
were in five different regiments ; and of these regiments 
it has been well said by Adjutant General Schouler, in his 
Report to the Governor, for 1861 : — 

' Afterwards re-enlisted in the Twenty-Second Regiment, see chap. III. 
' Afterwards commissioned 2d Lieutenant in the Twenty-Second Regi- 
ment, see chap. III. 

^ Afterwards re-enlisted in the Fourth Battery, see chap. III. 

* Afterwards re-enlisted in the Twenty-Fourth Regiment, see chap. III. 

* Union loss in this battle in killed, wounded and missing, 2,992. Rebels 
lost about 2,500. 

* Of this number old Middlesex County bore off the palm, sending 882 
privates and 57 commissioned offtcers. 

2 



10 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

They were the'first to respond to the call of the President ; 
first to march through Baltimore to the defence of the capital ; 
the first to shed their blood for the maintenance of our govern- 
ment ; the first to open the new route to Washington by the way 
of Annapolis ; the first to land on the soil of Virginia and hold 
possession of the most important fortress in the Union ; the first 
to make the voyage of the Potomac and approach the Federal 
city by water, as they had been the first to reach it by land. 
They upheld the good name of the State during their entire 
term of service, as well by their good conduct and gentlemanly 
bearing, as by their courage and devotion to duty in the hour of 
peril. They proved the sterling worth of our volunteer militia. 
Their record is one which will ever redound to the honor of 
Massachusetts, and will be prized among her richest historic 
treasures. These men have added new splendor to our revolu- 
tionary annals ; and the brave sons who were shot down in the 
streets of Baltimore on the 19th of April, have rendered doubly 
sacred the day when the greensward of Lexington Common was 
drenched with the blood of their fathers. 

Governor Andrew closes his address to the extra session 
of the Legislature, which was convened on the 14th of 
May, in tTie following words : — 

But how shall I record the great and sublime uprising of the 
people, devoting themselves, their lives, their all ? No creative 
art has ever woven into song a story more tender in its pathos, 
or more stirring to the martial blood, than the scenes just 
enacted, passing before our eyes in the villages and towns of our 
dear old Commonwealth. Henceforth be silent, ye cavillers at 
New England thrift, economy, and peaceful toil ! Henceforth 
let no one dare accuse our Northern sky, our icy winters, or our 
granite hills ! " Oh, what a glorious morning ! " was the exult- 
ing cry of Samuel Adams, as he, excluded from royal grace, 
heard the sharp musketry, which, on the dawn of the 19th of 
April, 1775, announced the beginning of the war of Indepen- 



GOVERNOR Andrew's address. i i 

dence. The yeomanry who in 1775, on Lexington Common, 
and on the banks of Concord River, first made that day immor- 
tal in our annals, have found their Hneal representatives in the 
historic regiment, which, on the 19th of April, 1 861, in the streets 
of Baltimore, baptized our flag anew in heroic blood, when Mas- 
sachusetts marched once more " in the sacred cause of liberty 
and the rijihts of mankind." 



II. 
i86i. 

Three Years' Men. 

Northmen, come out ! 
Forth unto battle with storm and shout ! 
Freedom calls you once again, 
To flag and fort and tented plain ; 
Then come with drum and trump and song, 
And raise the war-cry wild and strong : 

Northmen, come out ! 

Charles Godfrey Leland. 

Then, in the name of God, and all these rights, 
Advance your standards, draw your willing swords. 

Richard III. 



On the 3d of May, 1861, President Lincoln issued his 
second call for troops, which was for volunteers to serve 
for a period of three years, unless sooner discharged ; and 
on the same day our Selectmen issued a warrant, calling a 
Town Meeting, to take place at " Concert Hall," on the 
evening of May 6th. A very large and enthusiastic meet- 
ing was accordingly held, at which Mr. Charles F. Esty 
was chosen Moderator, and the following votes were unan- 
imously passed. 

That the Town of Melrose appropriate the sum of three 
thousand dollars (;^3,ooo) for the relief of the families of 
the citizens of Melrose, now absent in the service of the 
United States, or who may hereafter volunteer into the 



OUR FIRST TOWN MEETING. 1 3 

service of the United States, or the State of Massachu- 
setts. Also to aid volunteers of the town in their equip- 
ment, and to give such relief in the premises as the exi- 
gencies and necessities of each case may require. 

*Also that above all other appropriations the sum of fif- 
teen dollars per month be paid to those persons having 
families, and the sum of ten dollars per month to those 
who are single men, during their time of service in the 
war now pending. 

It was also voted, that the Town Treasurer be author- 
ized to borrow such sums of money as might be wanted 
from time to time to cover the appropriations then made ; 
and that the Selectmen — Colonel John H. Clark, and 
Messrs. William B. Burgess and George M. Fletcher, — 
constitute a Committee to superintend the disbursements 
of the money thus appropriated. 

A stirring and patriotic speech was made by the Hon. 
N. B. Bryant, ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives 
of New Hampshire, then a resident of Melrose. 

As Melrose raised no whole company for any regiment, 
our men, as they enlisted, selected the regiment or bat- 
tery in which they preferred to serve ; consequently they 
were much scattered, and entered many different organi- 
zations before the war was ended. 

Our earliest enlistments were in the Second, Twelfth 
and Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiments of Infantry, 
mostly in the latter regiment, which was commanded by 
Colonel Samuel H, Leonard, of Boston. 

The nucleus of the Thirteenth Regiment was the Fourth 
Battalion of Rifles, into which our men enlisted when the 
President issued his call for seventy-five thousand (75,000) 
troops, or immediately after the assault upon the Sixth 
Regiment in Baltimore, April 19th, and which was or- 



14 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

dered to Fort Independence. As no more troops for a 
short term were wanted, the Battalion was recruited to a 
three years' regiment. On a Sunday evening, just before 
the regiment left for Washington, the fourteen soldiers 
belonging to Melrose met in the Baptist Church, when tlie 
pastor, Rev. James Cooper, presented to each one a Tes- 
tament, accompanied by an address and prayer. On a fly- 
leaf of each Testament was written, besides the name, the 
words " God and our Country." 

The roll of our men who enlisted in the Thirteenth 
Regiment at this time, — and later as recruits, — with 
items of their military history, is as follows : 

THIRTEENTH REGIMENT.^ 
Co. A. 

CORPORAL. 

JONES, HENRY H. 

Promoted Corporal April i, 1863 ; taken prisoner at "Bat- 



' The Thirteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia was recruited 
at Fort Independence, Boston Harbor, and left the State for the seat of war 
July 30, 1861. It was in arduous and faithful service for three yegrs. Most 
of the stirring scenes in which the " Army of the Potomac " participated 
were experienced by the Thirteenth. It was in many sharp skirmishes, such 
as Bolivar, Dam No. 5, etc., and in the following battles : Second Bull Run, 
South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Mine Run, Chancellorsville, 
Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Laurel Hill, Cool 
Arbor,* and Siege of Petersburg. 



♦ This battle is given in Adjutant General Schouler's Reports as both Cold Harbor and 
Coal Harbor ; but Mr. Benson J. Lossing, in his History of the Civil War, calls it Cool 
Arbor, and gives the following note : " Cool Arbor derived its name from a tavern, at a de- 
lightful place of summer resort in the woods, for the Richmond people, even so early as tlie 
time of the Revolution. The derivation of the name determines its orthography. It has 
been erroneously spelled Coal Harbor and Cold Harbor." 



THE THIRTEENTH REGIMENT. 1 5 

tie of Gettysburg," July i, 1863;! exchanged May i, 
1864; mustered out of the service with the regiment, 
Aug. I, 1864. 

PRIVATES. 

BARRY, WILLIAM F.^ 

Killed at " Battle of Antietam," Sept. 17, 1862.3 

CROCKER, JOHN H. 

Discharged Dec. 30, 1862, for disability. 

DAWES, AMBROSE." 

Wounded in head at " Battle of Antietam," Sept. 17, 1862 ; 
mustered out with the regiment, Aug. i, 1864. 

DYER, N. MAYO. 
Discharged April 15, 1862, to enter the navy.^ 

JACKSON, WILLIAM P.e 

Discharged Jan. 22, 1863, for disability. 

KILBY, THEOPHILUS. 

Discharged July 20, 1862, for disability. 

KING, GEORGE L. 

Mustered out with the regiment, Aug. i, 1864. 

' For sketch of prison experience, see chap. XIV. 

' Enlisted July 28, 1862, and joined the regiment Aug, 18, while on the 
Rapid Ann River, Va. 

^ For obituary notice, see " Roll of Honor." 

National loss, at this battle, 12,469; 2,010 killed, 9,416 wounded, and 
1,043 missing. Rebel loss about 21,500 in killed, wounded and prisoners. 

* Enlisted Aug. 7, 1862, and joined the regiment Sept. 9, at Mcchanics- 
ville, Md. 

" For items of naval history, sec chap. IX. 

* Enlisted July 28, 1862, and joined the regiment Aug. iS, on the Rapid Ann 
River, Va. 



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THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



MORSE, GEORGE J. 



Wounded in hand at " Second Bull Run Battle," July 30, 
1862; discharged March 2, 1863, to become 2d Lieu- 
tenant in Second Regiment, U. S. Colored Troops, in 
"Department of the Gulf."i 

MUNN, THOMAS J. 

Taken prisoner at " Second Bull Run Battle," July 30, 
1862 ; paroled on the field of battle ;^ exchanged in 
September 1862; taken prisoner at "Battle of Gettys- 
burg," July I, 1863, but left in Gettysburg because 
wounded in thigh and leg ; transferred to Veteran Re- 
serve Corps,^ May i, 1864; mustered out July 16, 1864. 

SASSARD, AUGUSTUS. 

Discharged Nov. 14, 1862, for disability. 

SHELTON, ALBERT F. 

Wounded in right arm and side at "Battle of Antietam," 
Sept. 17th 1862 ; discharged Dec. 23, 1862. 

' W^ounded at Siege of Port Hudson, July 5, 1863 ; resigned July 20, 
1863 ; re-entered the service in the Fifty-Ninth Massachusetts Regiment, 
see chap. VI. 

^ Held seven days before being paroled ; all the food he had during five 
days of that time was one half pint of corn meal. 

=* The Veteran Reserve Corps was organized April 28, 1863, and consisted 
of men in the service who had been disabled by wounds or disease, and who 
had been discharged on account of wounds or other disability resulting from 
military service, but afterwards re-enlisted. Over 60,000 men entered this 
Corps, and May 31, 1865, it consisted of 762 commissioned officers and 29,- 
852 enlisted men. It escorted thousands of prisoners, convalescents, recruits 
and conscripts, held important military lines and positions, aided in the en- 
rolment and diaft, or guarded depots of public property. 



THE THIRTEENTH REGIMENT. 17 

SHELTON, CHARLES W.' 

Wounded in face at " Battle of Antietam," Sept. 1 7, 1 862 ; 
detailed for duty in Adjutant General's Office at Wash- 
ington, D. C, Dec. 10, 1862 ; transferred as Sergeant to 
the general service of the U. S. Army, Dec. i, 1863 ; 
discharged April i, 1864. 

SHELTON, JOHN P.2 

Killed at "Battle of Antietam," Sept. 17, 1862.^ 

SIMONDS, JOSEPH F. 
Discharged July 5, 1862, for disability.^ 

TAINTER, GEORGE A. 
Wounded in right arm at "Battle of Antietam," Sept. 17, 
1862; discharged Feb, 14, 1863. 

Co. D. 

SERGEANT. 

WHITNEY, EDWARD H. 

Promoted Corporal Nov. i, 1863; Sergeant Nov. 19, 1S63; 
mustered out with regiment, Aug. i, 1864. 

CORPORAL, 

MORSE, SIDNEY B. 2d. 
Promoted Right General Guide, with rank of Corporal, 
July 5, 1862; died at Finley Hospital, Washington, D. C, 
Sept. 16, 1862, of typhoid fever.^ 



^ Enlisted July 28, 1862, and joined the regiment Aug. 18, on the Rapid 
Ann River, Va. 

- Enlisted Aug. 7, 1S62, and joined the regiment Sept. 9, at Mechanics- 
ville, Md. 

^ For obituary notice, see " Roll of Honor," 

* Re-enlisted in the Third Cavalry Regiment, see chap, IV. 

° For obituary notice, see "Roll of Honor." 



1 8 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

Co. E. 

PRIVATE. 

MACEY, JAMES. 

Mustered out with the regiment, Aug. i, 1864. 

We had but one man in each of the Second and Twelfth 
Regiments, as follows : 

SECOND REGIMENT. 1 
Co. G. 

PRIVATE. 

GREENE, MARTIN. 

Wounded in thigh and arm at " Battle of Cedar Mountain," ^ 
Aug. 9, 1862 ; was left at Culpepper, Va., Aug. 17, 1862, in 
the evacuation of that place, where he undoubtedly died. 



^ The Second Massachusetts Regimentwas the firstloyal three years regiment 
raised for the United States service, and was mustered in May ii, l86i, and 
left the State July 8, 1861, under Colonel George H. Gordon. Its experience 
was arduous and varied, and has been well told by its talented historian and 
faithful chaplain, Rev. A. H. Quint, D. D. in his "Record of the Second 
Regiment." The following are the principal battles in which it was engaged: 
Jackson, Fort Royal, Winchester, Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree 
Creek, Atlanta, Raleigh, and Averysborough. 

« Called by the Confederates " Battle of Cedar Run," and " Battle of South- 
west Mountain." Nationals lost 2,000 killed and wounded, Confederates 
about the same. 



THE TWELFTH REGIMENT. I9 

TWELFTH REGIMENT. 1 
Co. A. 

CORPORAL. 

SPRAGUE, SAMUEL, Jr. 

Promoted Corporal May 23, 1862; severely wounded in 
ankle at " Battle of Antietam," Sept. 17, 1862; discharged 
June 24, 1863. 



' The Twelfth Massachusetts was raised by Fletcher Webster, who, on 
the day after our boys were shot down in the streets of Baltimore, published 
the following notice in the Boston papers : 

Fellow-Citizens : I have been assured by the Executive Department 
that the State will accept at once an additional regiment of infantry. I 
therefore propose to meet to-morrow at ten o'clock in front of the Merchants 
Exchange, State Street, such of my fellow-citizens as will join in raising this 
new regiment. The muster-roll will be ready to be signed then and there. 

Respectfully, Fletcher Webster. 

The meeting was held accordingly, Sunday, April 21, the regiment speedily 
raised and stationed at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor. It left the State July 
23, 1861, and was commanded by Colonel Webster until he was killed, at 
Second Bull Run Battle, Aug. 30, 1862. It was in the following engage- 
ments : Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Get- 
tysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Cool Arbor, and 
Petersburg. 



III. 



I86I. 

Three Years' Men. 

Oh, Star-Spangled Banner ! the Flag of our pride ! 
Though trampled by traitors and basely defied, 
Fling out to the glad winds your Red, White, and Blue, 
For the heart of the North-land is beating for you ! 
And her strong arm is nerving to strike with a will 
Till the foe and his boastings are humbled and still ! 
Here's welcome to wounding and combat and scars 
And the glory of death — for the Stripes and the Stars! 

Oh, God of our fathers I this Banner must shine 
Where battle is hottest, in warfare divine ! 
The cannon has thundered, the bugle has blown, — 
We fear not the summons — we fight not alone ! 
Oh, lead us, till wide from the Gulf to the Sea 
The land shall be sacred to Freedom and Thee ! 
With love, for oppression ; with blessing, for scars — 
One Country — one Banner — the Stripes and the Stars! 

Edna Dean Proctor. 

Other calls for volunteers to serve for three years, or 
during the war, were made by the President in the month 
of July,^ — 1 86 1, — and our citizens continued to enlist 
during that and the succeeding months of that year, in the 
various infantry and cavalry regiments then forming and 

* The total number of men called for in the May and July Proclamations 
was 582,748; the number obtained was 714,231. 



THE SIXTEENTH REGIMENT. 21 

recruiting. Melrose was represented in tlie following or- 
ganizations. 

SIXTEENTH REGIMENT.^ 
Co. A. 

PRIVATE. 

STEVENS, THOMAS H. 
Died at Boston, March 26, 1863, of chronic diarrhoea. 

Co. C. 

SERGEANT. 

LEEDS, SAMUEL. 

Wounded in shoulder at " Battle of Fair Oaks," June i, 
1862;- promoted corporal Jan. 10, 1863; re-enlisted 
Dec. 24, 1863; 3 transferred to nth Battalion July 11, 
1864; promoted Sergeant Nov. i, 1864; Color-Sergeant 
soon after; mustered out, by reason of the close of the 
war, July 14, 18G5. 

Co. F. 

PRIVATE. 

JACKSON, JACOB F. 
Discharged Nov. 17, 1861, for disability. 

■ The Sixteenth Massachusetts left the State Aug. 17, 1S61. The lamented 
Arthur B. Fuller, — killed at the "Battle of Fredericksburg," Dec. 12, 1862, 
— was its first chaplain. The following are its principal battles : Fair 
Oaks, Glendale, Malvern Hill, Kettle Run, Chantilly, Fredericksburg, Chan- 
cellorsville, Gettysburg, Locust Grove, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North 
Anna River, Cool Arbor, and Siege of Petersburg. 

' Union loss, 890 killed, 3,627 wounded and 1,222 missing. Total 5,739. 
Confederate loss 5,897. 

•^ All veteran soldiers enlisting, or re-enlisting were paid a United States 
bounty, — in addition to the State and Town bounties, — of ;p400. 



2 2 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT.i 
Co. A. 

PRIVATES. 

CURRIER, JOHN H. 

Discharged Aug. 26, 1 862, for disability. 

FISHER, GEORGE W. 

Discharged June 23, 1863, for disability. 

FULLER, HENRY F. 

Died Oct. 6, 1861, at Baltimore, Md., of typhoid fever.^ 

KENDALL, EDWARD W.3 

Mustered out at expiration of service, Aug. 3, 1864; com- 
missioned 1st Lieutenant, by brevet, Sept. 2, 1864. 

'The Seventeenth Massachusetts was recruited at "Camp Schouler," 
Lynnfield, and left the State Aug. 23, 1861. It was stationed near Balti- 
more, Md., for several months, and then sent to New Berne, N. C.,and served 
the rest of its time in the "Department of North Carolina." It was in the 
battles of Kinston, Goldsboro', Winton, Batchelder's Creek, Weldon, and 
Wise's Forks. Concerning the good material and personal bearing of the 
Seventeenth Regiment, in which Melrose was well represented, we have the 
following testimony of Colonel John Quincy Adams, one of Governor An- 
drew's personal staff, who was sent into the " Department of North Caro- 
lina," in September 1862, to examine and report on the condition of our 
soldiers. He thus speaks : — "I examined every musket personally, and 
almost every equipment, and can say, with perfect satisfaction, that their 
condition, in almost every case, was admirable. The arms, particularly, 
were as bright as when they were issued. The regiment was then drilled by 
Lieutenant Colonel Fellows in various evolutions, concluding with the drill 
as skirmishers, in all which the men showed careful and faithful training and 
most commendable proficiency." > 

* For obituary sketch, see " Roll of Honor,*' 

•^ Knlistcd July 28, 1862 ; joined the regiment at New Berne,' N. C. 



THE SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT. 2^ 

LYNDE, GEORGE W. 
Mustered out at expiration of service, Aug. 3, 1864; com- 
missioned 2d Lieutenant, by brevet, Dec. 31, 1864.1 
MACEY, JOHN S.2 
Discharged Nov. 11, 1 862, for disability.^ 
PEABODY, FRANCIS.4 
Re-enlisted Jan. 4, 1864; appointed Orderly for Brigadier 
General I. N. Palmer, Feb. 15, 1864; transferred to new 
organization July 16, 1864; died at New Berne, N. C, 
Oct. 3, 1864, of yellow fever.^ 
Co. D. 

PRIVATE. 

RICHARDSON, JOHN P. 

Re-enlisted Jan. 5, 1864; transferred to new organization 
July 16, 1864; mustered out of service, by reason of 
close of war, July 11, 1865. 

Co. I. 

LIEUTENANT. 

BOGLE, ARCHIBALD. 

Went out as 2d Lieutenant ; promoted ist Lieutenant 
May 28, 1862; discharged May 20, 1863, to become 
Major in the Thirty-Fifth United States Colored Troops, 
in General Wild's Brigade.*^ 



* Died Jan. 30, 1866, of consumption, contracted while in the service ; for 
obituary sketch, see " Roll of Honor." 

* Enlisted July 28, 1862 ; joined the regiment at New Berne. N. C. 
3 Afterward entered the navy ; see chap. IX. 

* Enlisted in the Seventeenth Regiment Aug. 11, 1862; joined it at New 
Berne, N. C; served previously in the Twenty-Second Regiment; see page 28. 

5 For obituary sketch, see " Roll of Honor." 

" Previous to entering the Seventeenth, served nearly two months in the 
Second Battalion of Infantry in the Forts of Boston Harbor. For further 
details concerning Major Bogle, see Chap. XIV. 



24 THE MELROSF, MEMORIAL. 

PRIVATE. 

McMAHAN, PHILIP. 
Re-enlistcd Jan. 5, 1864; transferred to new organization, 
July 16, 1864; mustered out July 11, 1865. 

Co. K. 

CAPTAIN. 

SIMONDS, JOSEPH R. 
Mustered out at expiration of service, Aug. 3, 1864.^ 

PRIVATES. 

CROCKETT, ALBERT W. 
Re-enlisted Jan. 5, 1864; taken prisoner at "Battle of 

* We find the following complimentary notice of Captain Simonds in a 
little pamphlet which appeared in 1864, entitled " Soldiering in North Caro- 
lina ; being the experiences of a ' Typo ' in the Pines, Swamps, Fields, Sandy 
Roads, Towns, Cities, and among the Fleas, Wood-ticks, 'Gray-backs,' 
Musquitoes, Blue-tail Flies, Moccasin Snakes, Lizards, Scorpions, Rebels, 
and other Reptiles, Pests and Vermin of the* Old North State.'" It was 
written by Thomas Kirwan, a member of his company. " The Captain 
Joseph R. Simonds, was a thoroughly patriotic and honest man, a good 
soldier, with many virtues, and a few faults and foibles, (and what man has 
not these to a greater or less extent ?) He took great pride in the well-being 
and efficiency of his company; and its good name, and the praise of his 
superiors for cleanliness, superiority in drill, or having a small sick-list, were 
to him matters of just pride and gratulation, — and frequently after a credit- 
able performance on drill or parade, he would snap his fingers with delight^ 
and, after dismissal, invite them all to his quarters for a treat. He was 
careful about the quality of their food, and whenever he could (which was 
not often) would procure such articles of luxury and dietetic change as would 
be most likely to promote health. He was uniformly kind, obliging and 
considerate, and did not look upon his men as mere pieces of mechanism 
that moved when he pulled the wires. He considered them men, — socially 
his equals, though in reality under his command, and to a certain extent at 
his mercy. He rarely abused his authority — never maliciously; and though 
he occasionally did injustice to some deserving men — it was, I think, more 
from an error of judgment than through design." 



THE EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT. 2^ 

Batchelder's Creek," Feb. i, 1864; died at "Anderson- 
ville" Aug. I, 1864.1 

HAYNES, JOSEPH W. 

Re-enlisted Jan. 5, 1864; transferred to new organization 
July 16, 1864; mustered out, close of war, July 11, 
1865. 

PEABODY, TORREY, JR. 

Mustered out at expiration of service, Aug. 3, 1864. 

GROVER, JOHN C. 

Re-enlisted Dec. 28, 1863; transferred to new organiza- 
tion, July 16, 1864 ; mustered out, close of war, July 1 1, 
1865. 

EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT.^ 
Co. E. 

PRIVATES. 

CARLISLE, JOHN. 

Non-resident.' 

PRINCE, ALBERT G. 

Wounded in neck at " Second Bull Run Battle," Aug. 
30, 1 862 ; taken prisoner, held five days and paroled ; 
discharged Oct. 15, 1862. 



' For biographical notice, see " Roll of Honor." 

^ The Eighteenth Massachusetts left the State August 28, 1861, and took 
part in the following engagements : Gaines' Farm, Secoitd Bull Run, Shep- 
pardstown, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Rappahannock 
Station, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cool Arbor, Petersburg and Wcldon 
Railroad. 

* Rec^ut enlisted Aug. 26, 1863. 



26 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Co. H. 

PRIVATE. 

ROWELL, STEPHEN P. 
Discharged Jan. ii, 1862, for disability.^ 

TWENTIETH REGIMENT.^ 

Co. A. 

PRIVATES. 

Mcdonald, angus. 

Discharged for disabihty. 

HINCKLEY, GEORGE H. 
Non-resident.3 

TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT.^ 
Co. G. 

LIEUTENANT. 

McKAY, GURDON. 

Commissioned 2d Lieutenant Oct. i, 1861 ; dismissed the 

service Aug. 3, 1863, for being absent without leave. 



' Re-enlisted in Fiftieth Massachusetts, see chap. V. 

' The Twentieth Massachusetts left the State Sept. 4, 1S61, and was in the 
following engagements : Ball's Bluff, West Point, Fair Oaks, Peach Orchard, 
Savage's Station, Glendale, Malvern Hill, Chantilly, Antietam, Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristoe's Station, Mine Run, Wilder- 
ness, Po River, Spottsylvania, Tolopotomy, Cool Arbor, Petersburg, Straw- 
berry Plains, Deep Bottom, Ream's Station, Boydtown Road, Vaughn Road 
and Farmville. 

^ Enlisted Dec. 20, 1862 ; for form of certificate taken of non-residents at 
this time see appendix A. 

* The Twenty- Second Massachusetts was recruited at Lynnfield, and left 
the State Oct. 8, 1861, Its first colonel was Hon. Henry Wilson. A flag 
was presented to this regiment, as it passed through Boston, by Hon. Robert 
C. Winthrop, in behalf of some citizens, and another in New York, by Hon. 
James T. Brady, in behalf of tlie " Sons of Massachusetts " resident in New 



THE TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT. I^J 

SERGEANT. 

BATCHELDER, GEORGE W. 
Promoted Sergeant Oct. 5, 1861 ; taken prisoner at " Bat- 
tle of Gaines' Farm," ^ June 27, 1862; first carried to 
" Libby Prison," wliere he was kept fourteen days, and 
thence to "Belle Isle," where he suffered the usual 
severe treatment at the hands of the rebels for sixty- 
four days ; paroled Oct. 18, 1862 ; exchanged, date un- 
known ; re-enlisted Feb. i, 1864 ; transferred to Thirty- 
Second Massachusetts Regiment Oct. 17, 1864." 

WAGONER. 

BARRON, HENRY. 
Mustered out at expiration of service, Oct. 17, 1864. 

CORPORAL. 

DAVIS, EDMUND W. 
Promoted Corporal June 17, 1862 ; taken prisoner at 
"Battle of Gaines' Farm," June 27, 1862; exchanged 
Aug. 5, 1862; discharged Oct. 20, 1862, at Philadel- 
phia, Pa., for disability.-* 

' In Adjutant General Schouler's Reports this is called the " Battle of 
Gaines' Mills ;" in Winch's " Chronicles of the Great Rebellion " it is called 
"Gaines' Mills" and "Gaines' Hill." Lossing calls it " Gaines' Farm." 
The Confederates called it, in their report, the "Battle of the Chickahom- 
iny." The national loss at this battle was about 8,000, 6,000 of which were 
killed and wounded. Rebels lost 5,000. 

^ See Thirty-Second Regiment, page 31. 

^ Died at Melrose, July 22, 1864. 

York. This was a gallant regiment and experienced hard service. It was 
engaged in the following battles : Yorktown, Mechanicsville, Chickahominy, 
Malvern Hill, Gainesville, Anlietam, Frcdericksljurg, Chancellorsville, Get- 
tysburg, Rappahannock Station, Wilderness, T.aurcl Hill, Jipottsylvania, 
Jericho Ford, Little River, Tolopotomy, Bethesda Church, Shady Grove 
Church and Siege oi I'etcrsburg. 



28 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

PRIVATES. 

BODWELL, HENRY A. 

Left the regiment after " Second Bull Run Battle," Aug. 
30, 1862, and enlisted in Co. K, Sixteenth Regiment 
Virginia Infantry, Sept. 22, 1862, and served until it 
was disbanded, June 3, 1863.^ 

GREEN, AUGUSTUS. 

Killed at "Battle of Bethesda Church," June 3, 1864.2 

GROVER, ANDREW J. 

Discharged Sept. 18, 1862, for disability.^ 

MORRISON, CHARLES H. 
Discharged Jan. i, 1862, for disability.^ 

McAllister, daniel w. 

Discharged Oct. 9, 1 862, for disability. 

PEABODY, TORREY. 
Discharged Nov. 9, 1862, for disability. 

PEABODY, FRANCIS. 
Discharged April 21, 1862, for disability.^ 



' Afterwards served four years in the nav}', see chap. IX. 
' For obituary notice, see " Roll of Honor." 
** Re-enlisted in Third Heavy Artillery, see chap. VI. 
'• Re-enlisted in Thirty-Eighth Regiment, see chap. IV. 
' Re-enlisted in Seventeenth Regiment, see page 23. 



THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT. 29 

TWENTY-TPIIRD REGIMENT. ^ 
Co. K. 

PRIVATES. 

DONAGAN, MAURICE. 
Deserted June ii, 1862; non-resident. 

SHANNON, MARTIN. 
Discharged Oct. 27, 1862, for disability. 

TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.^ 
Co. B. 

CORPORAL. 
BUFFUM, ADELBERT A. 
Mustered out at expiration of service, Sept. 24, 1864. 

Co. C. 

PRIVATES. 

LITTLEFIELD, GUSHING W. 

Wounded in leg at Little Washington, N. C, Nov. 3, 1862 ; 
discharged June 28, 1863. 



' The Twenty-Third Massachusetts left the State Nov. ii, 1861, and was 
in the following engagements : Roanoke, New Berne, Rawles' Mills, Kinston, 
Goldsboro', Wilcox Bridge, Winton, Smithfield, Heckman's Farm, Arrow- 
field Church, Drury's Bluff, Cool Arbor, and other engagements before 
Petersburg, and Kinston 2d. 

■'' The Twenty-Fourth Massachusetts left the State Dec. 9, 1861, and took 
part in the following battles : Roanoke Island, Kinston, Whitehall, Golds- 
boro', Tranter's Creek, New Berne, James Island, Morris Island, Fort Wag- 
ner, Green Valley, Drury's Bluff, Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, Weir 
Bottom Church, Deep Bottom, Deep Run, Fussell's Mills, Siege of Peters- 
burg, Four Mile Run Church and Darby Town Road. 



30 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

WYMAN, WILLIAM. 

Re-enlisted Jan. 4, 1864; wounded in hand — lost two fin- 
gers — in "Battle of Deep Bottom," Aug. 15, 1864 
mustered out, at close of war, July 10, 1865. 

TWENTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.^ 
Co. A. 

PRIVATE. 

STARBUCK, GEORGE M. 

Non-resident. 

THIRTIETH REGIMENT.'-^ 
Co. B. 

PRIVATE. 

LANE, FRANCIS W. 

Non-resident. 

Co. E. 

PRIVATE. 

SLOCOMB, HENRY W. 

Re-enlisted Jan. i, 1864; mustered out July 10, 1866. 

' The Twenty-Sixth Massachusetts left the State Nov. 21, 1861. Its colo- 
nel was Edward F. Jones, of Baltimore fame. It had many of the men that 
belonged to the old Sixth Regiment, and that went through Baltimore, April 
19,1861. It was in the "Department of the Gulf" the greater part of its 
time of service. Was in battles of Winchester, Cedar Creek and Fisher's 
Hill, under General Sheridan. 

* The Thirtieth Massachusetts was mustered in Jan. 4, 1 862, and took part 
in the following engagements : Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Plains Stores, Port 
Hudson, Cox's Plantation, Donaldsonville and Winchester, Cedar Creek 
and P"isher's Hill under Sheridan. It was the last Massachusetts Regiment 
in Unitctl States service, being nuisteretl out July 10, 1866. 



THIRTY-SECOND REGIMENT. 3^ 

THIRTY-SECOND REGIMENT.^ 
Co. C. 

LIEUTENANT. 

BATCHELDER, GEORGE W. 
Transferred as Sergeant from Twenty-Second Regiment, 
Oct. 17, 1864; promoted 2d Lieutenant Dec. 4, 1864; 
1st Lieutenant, April i, 1865 ; discharged, by reason of 
close of war, June 29, 1865. 

PRIVATE. 

HANIGAN, JOHN. 

Mustered out Oct. 28, 1864; non-resident. 

Co. A. 

PRIVATE, 

QUINN, JOHN E. 
Discharged Dec. 4, 1862, for disability. 

NINETY-NINTH NEW YORK REGIMENT.^ 
Co. B. 

PRIVATE. 

QUINN, JOHN H. 
Transferred from Co. K ; mustered out Feb. 30, 1865. 



' The Thirty-Second Massachusetts was mustered into service Dec. i8, 
1861. It was in the following battles : Malvern Hill, Gainesville, Second 
Bull Run, Chantilly, Antietam, PYederickslmrg, Chancellorsville, Gettys- 
burg, Rappahannock Station, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North 
Anna River, Tolopotomy, Bethesda Chutch, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, 
Vaughn Road, Dabney's Mills, Boydtown Road and White Oak Road. 

2 Known as the " Union Coast Guard." Massachusetts did not receive 
credit for the three hundred men she had in it. Melrose paid State aid 
to the families of Quinn and Gallagher, 



32 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

Co. G. 

PRIVATE. 

GALLAGHER, RICHARD. 
Mustered out Feb. 30, 1865. 

SECOND BATTERY. 1 

LIEUTENANT. 

ELLIS, JACOB M.2 

Promoted Corporal Jan. i, 1862 ; re-enlisted Feb. 15, 1864 ; 
promoted Sergeant Aug. i, 1864; 2d Lieutenant, Jan. 
8, 1865 ; discharged, close of war, Aug. 11, 1865. 

SERGEANT. 

HOWE, FRANCIS E. 

Promoted Corporal Aug. i, 1861 ; Sergeant, Jan. i, 1862 ; 
discharged Jan. 8, 1863, for disability. 

CORPORAL. 

ANDREWS, EDWIN A.2 
Mustered out at expiration of service, Aug. 16, 1864. 

PRIVATES. 

EASTMAN, WILLIAM H. 
Taken prisoner at Bayou Boeuf, June 19, 1863; paroled 



'The Second Massachusetts Battery — Nims' — left the State Aug. 8, 
1861, and was in the following engagements : Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Port 
Hudson, Sabine Cross Roads, Brashear City, Jackson, Claiborne, Ala., and 
Daniels' Plantation. 

* Credited to Boston at Adjutant General's Office, but citizen of Melrose 
at time of enlistment and since the war, Melrose paid State aid. 



THE FOURTH BATTERY. 33 

July 3, 1863; exchanged Nov. 20, 1863; mustered out, 
Aug. 16, 1864.1 

SEAVEY, LEONARD C. 

Mustered out at expiration of service, Aug. 16, 1864. 

STILPHEN, JOHN E. 
Mustered out at expiration of service, Aug. 16, 1864.^ 

THIRD BATTERY. 3 

CORPORAL. 
HOWARD, AVERY B. 
Promoted Corporal May 14, 1862; mustered out, expira- 
tion of service, Sept. 16, 1864. 

PRIVATE. 

CROCKETT, GEORGE F. 

Discharged Jan. 2, 1863, for disability.'* 

FOURTH BATTERY.5 

PRIVATE. 

SMITH, THOMAS. 

Re-enlisted Jan. 2, 1864; mustered out, close of war, Oct. 
14, 1865. 



' For sketch of prison experience, see chap. XIV. 

* Died June 25, 1865; for biographical notice, see " Roll of Honor." 

3 The Third Massachusetts Battery — Follett's, afterwards Martin's — 
left the State Oct. 7, 1861. It took part in the following engagements : 
Siege of Yorktown, Hanover Court House, Mechanicsville, Gaines' Farm, 
Malvern Hill, Antietam, Shej^pardstown, Leestown, Fredericksburg, Chan- 
cellorsville, Middlebury, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Wilderness, Laurel Hill, 
Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Bethesda Church, Cool Arbor, Peters- 
burg, Six Mile Station, and Petersburg and Weldon Railroad. 

* Afterwards re-enlisted in same battery in the quota of Mansfield. 

* The Fourth Massachusetts Battery — Manning's — left the State Nov. 
20, 1861, and was in the following engagements : Pontichoula, Baton Rouge, 
Bonfouca, Bisland, Cotton, Port Hudson, Vermilion, and Siege of Mobile. 

5 



34 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

FIFTH BATTERY. 1 

ARTIFICER. 

STANTIAL, THOMAS B. 

Discharged July 25, 1862, by reason of the abolishment of 
the office. 

PRIVATE. 

SKINNER, CHARLES E. 
Discharged Oct. 9, 1863, for disability. 

FIRST CAVALRY.^ 
Co. G. 

LIEUTENANT, 

STEVENS, CHARLES H. 
Entered the service as private in Co. B; promoted ist 
Sergeant Co. G, March 8, 1 863 ; 2d Lieutenant Jan. 2, 
1864; acted as such during remainder of service, but 
not mustered in ; wounded through left hand at Deep 
Bottom, Va., July 28, 1864; mustered out as Sergeant, 
Sept. 16, 1864. 



* The Fifth Massachusetts Battery — Eppendort's, afterwards Phillips' — 
left the State Dec. 25, 1861. It took part in the following battles: York- 
town, Hanover Court House, Mechanicsville, Gaines' Farm, Malvern Hill, 
Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Rappahan- 
nock Station, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna River, 
Bethesda Church, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, and Hatcher's Run. 

* The First Massachusetts Cavalry, — " the eyes of the army," — was mus- 
tered in Nov. I, 1861, and was in the following engagements : Poolesville, 
South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Brandy Sta- 
tion, Aldie, Upperville, Gettysburg, Williamsport, Culpepper, Auburn, 
Todd's Tavern, Fortifications of Richmond, Vaughn Road, St. Mary's 
Church, Cool Arbor, and Bellefield. 



FIRST CAVALRY. 35 

CORPORAL, 

LYNDE, SHERMAN. 

Promoted Corporal Feb. i, 1864; mustered out, expiration 
of service, Oct. 31, 1864. 

PRIVATES. 

CHANDLER, ROSWELL W. 
Discharged Oct. 31, 1862, for disability. 
PRATT, DANIEL S.i 
Mustered out Oct. 31, 1864. 

At the end of the year 1861, Massachusetts had 'fur- 
nished for the war forty-one thousand two hundred and 
ninety-four (41,294) men ; of which number three thou- 
sand seven hundred and thirty-six (3,736) were for the 
three months' service, one hundred and forty-four (144) — 
one Battery — for six months' service, seven thousand six 
hundred and fifty-eight (7,658) in the navy, and the bal- 
ance, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty-six 
(29,756) for the three years' service. 

Melrose had furnished at this same time eighty-one 
(81) men; of which number five (5) were for the three 
months' service, three (3) were in t]ie navy, and the balance, 
seventy-three {7^), for the three years' service. Three of 
those in the three years' service were commissioned officers, 
viz : Second Lieutenant Archibald Bogle, of the Seven- 
teenth Regiment ; Second Lieutenant Gurdon McKay, of 
the Twenty-Second Regiment ; and Captain Joseph R. 
Simonds, of the Seventeenth Regiment. Als6, J. Wesley 

* Served three months in 1861, in Co. F, Eighth Regiment, from Lynn. 



36 THE MELROSE MEMORIAU 

Jones, First Lieutenant of the Twelfth U. S. Infantry, 
and Smith W. Nichols, Jr., Midshipman in U. S. Navy. 

The position of Massachusetts at this time is well rep- 
resented by the following extract : 

Massachusetts regiments and batteries were in front of Wash- 
ington and Fortress Monroe ; five regiments were at Annapolis, 
ready to embark in General Burnside's expedition against North 
Carolina. One regiment and a battery were at Ship Island in 
Mississippi, waiting orders from General Butler. Gunboats, 
officered and manned by Massachusetts men, kept watch and 
ward on the Southern coast, or carried the flag upon far off seas. 
Officers remained here on recruiting service ; and enlistments 
were made to complete new regiments, and to fill the depleted 
ranks of those at the seat of war. Wounded officers and sol- 
diers were at home on furlough or discharged for disability^ 
The " empty sleeve " was seen daily in our streets ; and maimed 
veterans hobbled up the steps of the State House to show their 
honorable discharge papers, and tell in modest words, of their 
toili and dangers. 



IV. 

I 862. 



Great God ! to whom our nation's woes, 

Our dire distress, our angry foes, 

In all their awful gloom are known, 

We bow to Thee and Thee alone. 
****** 

We trust to Thy protecting power 
In this, our country's saddest hour, 
And pray that Thou wilt spread Thy shield 
Above us in the camp and field. 

****** 
'Till, guided by Thy glorious hand. 
Those armies reunite the land, 
And North and South alike shall raise 
To God their peaceful hymns of praise. 

Park Benjatnin. 



On the first day of July. 1862, President Lincoln issued 
his third Proclamation, calling for troops, the Governors 
of eicrhteen loyal States having joined in an address to 
him ""suggesting the necessity of so doing. This call was 
for three hundred thousand (300,000) volunteers, to serve 
for three years, or until the end of the war. These were 
to form new regiments and batteries, and fill up the de- 
pleted ranks of those then in the service. 



38 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



The nation had passed through a year of successes and 
reverses, and this new call came just at the time of the 
disheartening result of the campaign before Richmond, 
when Gen. McClellan and his army were falling back to 
Harrison's Landing, on the James River. 

The encouraging features at this juncture of affairs were 
that Gen. Banks and his army still held possession of the 
upper waters of the Potomac. Gen. Burnside had cap- 
tured New Berne, and other places in North Carolina, 
which were strongly held. Admiral Farragut, with his 
"jolly tars," had passed and taken Forts Jackson and St. 
Philip, thus opening the Mississippi River, and Gen. But- 
ler occupied New Orleans and other points in Louisiana ; 
and, notwithstanding the failure of this attempt to take the 
Confederate capital, long wished for and long expectea, 
the loyal North 

" bated no jot of heart or hope "; 

and never was the determination stronger than now to put 
down this nefarious Rebellion. 

Brig.-Gen. William Schouler, — Adjutant-General of the 
State during the war, — in his " History of Massachusetts 
in the Civil War," speaks as follows of the situation at this 
time, and of the unremitted energy displayed by our great 
war Governor, John A. Andrew : 



We well remember one night, when the news of McClellan's 
retreat reached Boston ; the papers were filled with accounts of 
the terrible disaster ; the names of the dead and wounded of 
Massachusetts' bravest and best were arrayed in the ghastly 
bulletins transmitted from the front. • 

That very night the Governor said : " We must issue a new 
order, call for more men, incite recruiting, inspire hope, dispel 



THIRD CALL FOR TROOPS. 39 

gloom ; this is the time which requires boldness, firmness, and 
every personal sacrifice." 

The order was issued ; it aroused the latent energies of the 
people ; young men, who had not before thought of volunteer- 
ing, offered themselves as recruits, eager to press forward to fill 
the gaps which disaster and death had made in our ranks. 

The proportion of the three hundred thousand (300,000) 
men assigned to Massachusetts was fifteen thousand (15,- 
000). The annual returns of the assessors of the several 
towns and cities, of the men liable to perform military 
duty, were taken as a basis on which to arrange the differ- 
ent quotas ; and as soon as the figures could be properly 
adjusted, an order was issued by Adjutant-General Schou- 
ler, giving the quota of each city and town in the State. 

The quota of Melrose was found to be thirty-seven {37) 
men. On the evening of July 14th, immediately after the 
promulgation of this order, a war meeting was held at 
Lyceum Hall, at which Colonel John H. Clark was chosen 
Chairman, and Mr. Thomas Shelton, Secretary. A num- 
ber of patriotic speeches were made by our citizens, and 
it was determined that the quota of Melrose should be 
speedily raised. 

A proposition was submitted to the meeting by Mr. 
Rufus Smith, of the following tenor, viz : — That enough 
of the citizens of the town to fill the quota, then and there 
pledge themselves either to enlist, or furnish substitutes. 

The following gentlemen gave their names, agreeing to 
abide by the proposition ; four of them proposing to fur- 
nish two substitutes. 

Rufus Smith, two men. 

George W. Heath, 
David Fairbanks, " 



4© THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

Frank A. Messenger, two men. 

N. B. Bryant, one man. 

George A. Bacon, " 

Charles H. Isburgh, " 

John W. Fairbanks, " 

Isaac Emerson, Jr., " 

Theodore L. Knowles, " 

George Emerson 2d, " 

Moses Parker, M. D., " 

R. Watson Emerson, " 

Elbridge H. Goss, " 

Thomas C. Evans, " 

Anthony Crosby, " 

EHsha W. Cobb, 

George W. Emerson, " 

Daniel Russell, " 

The names of the volunteers procured by the above 
gentlemen, as their substitutes, and the battery and regi- 
ments in which they served, are as follows. Sums rang- 
ing from twenty to fifty dollars each were paid for these 
substitutes, in addition to the bounty of one hundred dol- 
lars paid by the Town. 

Nelson W. Bickford, Co. I, 38th Reg., Charles S. Jones, 
Co. G., 39th Reg., for Rufus Smith. 

Francis Deshon, Co. K., 38th Reg., James R. Howard, 
Co. K., 38th Reg., for George W. Heath. 

John P. Shelton, Co. A., 13th Reg., Ambrose Dawes, 
Co. A., 13th Reg., for Frank A. Messenger. 

Charles L. White, Co. E., ist H. Art, for George A. 
Bacon. 

Nathan 11. Brand, 9th Bat., for John W. Fairbanks. 

Horace Prescott, 9th Bat., for Isaac Emerson, Jr. 

Samuel Tobey, 9th Bat., for Thomas C. Evans. 



WAR MEETING. 4^ 

William L. Tucker, 9th Bat., for George W. Emerson. 
James A. Kennelly, Co. I, 38th Reg., for Elbridge H. 

Goss. 

Benjamin Lynde, Co. K, 38th Reg., for Theodore L. 

Knowles. 

George O. Noyes, Co. K, 38th Reg., for George Emer- 
gen, 2d. 

William H. Martin, Co. K, 38th Reg., for R. Watson 

Emerson. 

George E. Richardson, Co. K, 38th Reg., for Anthony 

Crosby. 

Benjamin Tower, Co. K.. 38th Reg., for Elisha W. Cobb. 

James W. Emerson, Co. K, 38th Reg., for Daniel Russell. 

The substitutes for those whose names do not appear in 
the latter list were non-residents ; and they were obtained 
and put into the service by Captain James H. Wade, of 
the Thirty-Eighth Regiment. 

The following article of agreement was drawn up and 
circulated, immediately after this meeting, and was very 
generally signed by our citizens. As will be seen hereaf- 
ter, the vote to pay one hundred dollars ($100) bounty 
to each volunteer, and the appointment of the Committee 
referred to in this article, were duly authorized at a regu- 
larly called Town Meeting. 

At a meeting of the citizens of Melrose, held this day, for the 
purpose of procuring the necessaiy quota of soldiers required 
from the Town, in accordance with the Governor's Order No. 
26, a Committee was appointed consisting of the present Board 
of Selectmen, together with Messrs. Elbridge Gardner, Isaac 
Emerson, Jr., and John W. Fairbanks, who were empowered to 
draw upon the Town Treasurer moneys in the amount of one 
hundred dollars ($100) per man for every volunteer so required, 
recruited and accepted. And in order that the wishes of the cit- 
6 



42 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

izens thus expressed should have the necessary legal and bind- 
ing effect, and that the moneys thus raised should fall equally 
alike upon all in proportion to their substance, the Committee 
were directed to employ an officer to visit every tax-payer and 
request his or her assent and signature to this agreement ; to 
wit : 

Whereas it appears to us that it has become necessary to raise 
money for militaiy purposes in an informal manner, and without 
any precedent in law, 

We, the Tax-payers of Melrose, give our assent, and by our 
signatures do hereby bind ourselves to pay, without demurring, 
our property proportion of the aforesaid levy, waiving any infor- 
mality in law ; and do further agree that the same shall be con- 
sidered as due from us as a portion of our l^own Tax to be 
assessed, paid or collected in the customary and usual manner 
and form ; and save the before-named Committee, as also all 
Town Officers engaged in raising and disbursing the same, 
harmless in their private capacity and estate. 

Melrosk, July 14, 1S62. 

A Town meeting was called and held at Lyceum Hall, 
Jtily 28th. Mr. William B. Burgess was chosen Moderator, 
and the proceedings of the citizens' meeting were read by 
the Secretary, and fully indorsed and accepted ; and further 
measures were taken to induce and secure enlistments. 

The following vote — offered by Mr. Henry A. Norris — 
was unanimously passed : 

Voted, That the sum of thirty-seven hundred dollars ($3,700) 
be raised to pay thirty seven (37) able-bodied men, who shall vol- 
untarily enlist in the service of the United States under the re- 
cent call of the President of the United States for three hundred 
thousand (300,000) men ; and that the Selectmen be authorized 
to disburse one hundred dollars {$ioq) to each man who shall 



TOWN MEETING. 43 

enlist, as soon as he shall have been accepted by the military 
authorities of this State, and mustered into said service.^ 

It was also 

Voted, That the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) be raised 
to aid the cause of enlistment, to be disbursed by a Committee 
chosen at this meeting, in such manner as said Committee deem 
best. 

This Committee consisted of the Selectmen, — Colonel 
John H. Clark, and Messrs. William B. Burgess and 
George M. Fletcher, — and Messrs. Elbridge Gardner, 
Isaac Emerson, Jr., and John W. Fairbanks. 

Encouraging and patriotic speeches were made by Hon. 
N. B. Bryant, Rev. George W. Quinby, Mr. Charles H. 
Isburgh, and others. A determination to bear our share 
of expense, and raise our proportion of men for the field, 
was manifested, and the best spirit prevailed during the 
entire meeting. 

In order to encourage and obtain enlistments, Mr. 
Henry A. Norris offered to pay the sum of fifty dollars 
($50) to the first five men who should enlist at this time. 

Mr. Daniel W. Wilcox also offered to pay ten dollars 
(^10) each to the next ten men that should enlist from our 
town. 

Hon. N. B. Bryant agreed to pay the sum of ten dollars 
($10) each to all others who should sign the enlistment roll 
on that evening. 

With these extra inducements a number of our young 
men enlisted at this time, the first one to sign his name 
to the roll being 

William Francis Barry. 



' For form in which this bounty was paid to those who enlisted at this 
time, see appendix B. 



44 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

This meeting was adjourned until the evening of August 
2d, when a very large and enthusiastic gathering was held, 
at which stirring and interesting addresses were made by 
Hon. Daniel W. Gooch, — then member of Congress from 
the Sixth District ;^ Judge Cochran, of the Supreme Court 
of Maryland ; Sergeant E. G. Adams, of the Second New 
Hampshire Regiment ; Captain James H. Slade, of the 
Thirty-Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, and formerly of 
General Sigel's staff; Mr. Rufus Smith and Rev. George 
W. Quinby. The exertions and inducements put forth at 
these meetings were successful, and our quota was more 
than filled. 

We now give the names of those who enlisted for three 
years, on the quota of Melrose, at this time, and during 
the rest of the year 1862, excepting those who went into 
the regiments organized the year before, and whose names 
have been already given on previous pages. No special 
effort has been made to gather items concerning non- 
residents. 



* In January 1858, Mr. Gooch was elected Representative from the Seventh 
District for the remainder of the term commencing March 4, 1857. He was 
re-elected for the succeeding terms, commencing in 1859, 1861, 1863 — then 
by a new division of Representative Districts, called the Sixth instead of the 
Seventh District — and 1865. He was a member of the "Congressional 
Committee on the Conduct of the War " during its four years of investiga- 
tions, and its Chairman on the part of the House. The following are among 
the speeches delivered at different times during his congressional service : 
" The Lecompton Constitution and the admission of Kansas into the Union," 
March 29, 1858 ; " Polygamy in Utah," April 4, i860; " The Supreme Court 
and Dred Scott," May 3, i860; "Organization of the Territories," May 11, 
i860; "Any Compromise a Surrender," February 23, 1861 ; " Recognition of 
Hayti and Liberia," June 2, 1862; " Secession and Reconstruction," May 3, 
1864. He resigned his seat in the House vSeptember i, 1865, having been 
appointed Naval Officer for the Port of Boston by President Johnson, and 
was removed by him in less than a year from the time of his appointment, jjj 



THE ELEVENTH REGIMENT. 45 

ELEVENTH REGIMENT.^ 
Co. I. 

PRIVATE. 

WELLS, CHARLES A. 

Wounded at "Battle of Gettysburg," July 2, 1863 ; 2 mus- 
tered out at expiration of service, June 24, 1864. 

FIRST HEAVY ARTILLERY.^ 
Co. E. 

PRIVATE. 

WHITE, CHARLES L. 

Wounded in hand — one finger shot off— at Warrenton 
Junction, Aug. 28, 1862, trying to save General Pope's 
supply train ; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps 
Oct. 23, 1863 ; mustered out Nov. 15, 1865. 



' The Eleventh Massachusetts was recruited at Fort "Warren, Boston Har- 
bor, and mustered into the United States service June 13, 1861. It was in 
most of the principal battles participated in by the " Army of the Potomac" 
from the First Bull Run to the Siege of Petersburg and foil of Richmond, 

« Federal loss in this battle, 23,186; 2,834 killed, 13,709 wounded, 6,643 
missing. Rebel loss estimated at 26,500 in killed, wounded and prisoners. 

3 The First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery — changed from Fourteenth 
Regiment Infantry— left the State July 7, 1861, and was stationed in the 
Forts around Washington until the last campaign, when it took part in the 
following battles: Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Tolopotomy, Cool 
Arbor, Petersburg, Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, Poplar Spring Church, 
Boydtown Road, Hatcher's Run, Duncan's Run and Vaughn Road. 



46 ■ THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

THIRTY-THIRD REGIMENT.^ 
Co. C. 

PRIVATES. 

DAVIS, LOAMI G. 
Discharged March 15, 1863, for disabiUty.^ 

KRANTZ, FREDERICK W. 

Taken prisoner after " Battle of Gettysburg " by Stuart's 
cavalry while on a raid ; held seven months, escaped, 
and joined his regiment at Lookout Valley ; again taken 
prisoner while on the " march to the sea " and confined 
at "Salisbury Prison;" paroled April 3, 1865; dis- 
charged June 6, 1865. 

THIRTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT. » 
Co. I. 

MUSICIAN. 

KENNISTON, CHARLES. 

Wounded at "Siege of Port Hudson," June 14, 1863; 
mustered out with regiment, June 30, 1865 ; non-resi- 
dent. 



* The Thirty-Third Massachusetts left the State Aug. 14, 1S62, and was 
jn the following battles: Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Beverly Ford, 
Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and the battles of Gen- 
eral Sherman's Grand Army. 

* Re-enlisted in Third Heavy Artillery, see chap. VI. 

3 The Thirty-Eighth Massachusetts left the State Aug. 26, 1862, and was 
in the following engagements: River, Mansura, Bisland, Port Hud- 

son, Opequan, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek. 



THE THIRTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT. 47 

SERGEANT. 

MORRISON, CHARLES H. 

Deserted at " Camp Emory," Baltimore, Md., Nov. 7, 
1862.1 

CORPORAL. 

KENNELLEY, JAMES A. 

Discharged at Mower Hospital, Phila., Pa., May 3, 1865, 
for disability ; non-resident. 

PRIVATES. 

BICKFORD, NELSON W. 

Discharged Sept. 28, 1863, at Baton Rouge, La., for dis- 
ability. 

KELLEY, PATRICK. 

Mustered out June 30, 1865 ; non-resident. 

RICE, GEORGE. 

Absent, sick, at muster-out of regiment ; non-resident. 

Co. K. . 

LIEUTENANT. 

MARTIN, GEORGE T. 

Went out 2d Lieutenant ; promoted ist Lieutenant April 
14, 1863 ; resigned Aug. 12, 1863, on account of dis- 
ability.2 



' The whole number of deserters from tlie Union army during the war 
was 278,644 ; whole number of Massachusetts soldiers tiiat deserted was 
7,352 ; only two citizens of Melrose arc here recorded as deserters. 

■■^ Re-entered the service in Fourth Heavy Artillery, see chap. VI. 



48 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

SERGEANT. 

MARTIN, WILLIAM H. 

On detached service in Ordnance Department from April 
II till Aug. I, 1863 ; mustered out June 30, 1865. 

CORPORALS. 

NOYES, GEORGE O. 

Promoted Corporal March 10, 1863 ; wounded in hand at 
"Siege of Port Hudson," June 14, 1863 ; mustered out 
June 30, 1865. 

TOWER, BENJAMIN. 

Promoted Corporal Aug. 10, 1863 ; wounded at " Battle of 
Cedar Creek," Oct. 19, 1864; mustered out June 30, 
1865. 

PRIVATES. 

DESHON, FRANCIS. 
Mustered out' June 30, 1865. 

EMERSON, JAMES W. 
Mustered out June 30, 1865. 

HOWARD, JAMES R. 
Discharged Dec. 5, 1863, for disability.^ 

LYNDE, BENJAMIN. 

Died Aug. 18, 1863, at Baton Rouge, La., of chronic diar- 
rhoea.^ 



' Died at Melrose Aug. 16, 1864 ; for obituary notice, see "Roll of Honor." 
* For obituary notice, see " Roll of Honor." 



THE THIRTY-NINTH REGIMENT. 49 

RICHARDSON, GEORGE E. 

Taken prisoner at " Battle of Cedar Creek," Oct. 19, 1864 ; 
died in prison at Salisbury, N. C, Nov. 3, 1864.^ 

THIRTY-NINTH REGIMENT.- 
Co. G. . 

CORPORAL. 

STONE, HENRY. 

Discharged at Boston, Sept. 30, 1863, for disability.3 

PRIVATES. 

EARL, WILLIAM H. 

Wounded in hand at Hagerstown, Md., July 15, 1863; 
transferred to navy ,4 April 21, 1864.^ 

JACKSON, WILLIAM H. 
. Discharged May 19, 1864, for disability. 
JONES, CHARLES S. 

Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, March 31, 1864; 
discharged June 24, 1865. 

PIKE, JACOB F. 
Mustered out June 13, 1865. 



' For obituary notice, see " Roll of Honor." 

2 The Thirty-Ninth Massachusetts left the State Sept 6, 1862, and was in 
the following battles : — Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna 
River, Tolopotomy, Bethesda Church, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Dab- 
ney's Mills, Gravelly Run and Five Forks. 

3 Re enlisted in Fifty-Ninth Regiment, see chap. VI. 

^ Authority for thus transferring given by Congress, Feb. 24, 1864. 
■'' For navy items, see chap. IX. 
7 



50 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

'STEBBENS, THADDEUS S. 

Discharged Dec. 25, 1863, at Finley Hospital, Washing 
ton, D. C, for disabiHty. 

Co. I. 

PRIVATES. 

BURNS, FRANCIS. 



Non-resident. 
Non-resident. 
Non-resident. 
Non-resident. 



FERGUSON, JOHN. 

SAWYER, OBADIAH. 

WILSON, JOHN. 



NINTH BATTERY.^ 

CORPORAL. 

TUCKER, WILLIAM L. 

Promoted Corporal Oct. 23, 1864; mustered out with bat- 
tery, June 6, 1865. 

PRIVATES. 

BRAND, NATHAN H. 

Died March 6, 1864, at Emory Hospital, Washington, 
D. C, of cholera morbus. 



' The Ninth Massachusetts Battery left the State Sept. 3, 1862, and was in 
the following engagements: Gettysburg, Mine Run, Spottsylvania, North 
.•\nna River, Tolopotomy, Bethesda Church, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad 
and Hatcher's Run. 



SECOND CAVALRY. 5I 

CHAPIN, JOSEPH A. 
Discharged Aug. 29, 1864, to receive promotion as Hos- 
pital Steward in United States Army, by General Order 
No. 284, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D. C.^ 
PRESCOTT, HORACE. 
Mustered out June 6, 1865. 

TOBEY, SAMUEL. 
Wounded at "Battle of Gettysburg," July 2, 1863 ; mus- 
tered out June 6, 1865 ; non-resident. 

THIRTEENTH BATTERY. 2 

CORPORAL. 

ELLIS, ALVAN T. 
Promoted Corporal Dec. 30, 1862 ; deserted Dec. 11, 1863, 
at Hampton, Va. ; non-resident.^ 

SECOND CAVALRY. 4 
Co. B. 

PRIVATES. 

HARRIS, WILLIAM. 

Non-resident. 



' Served fifteen months at Fort Independence, Boston Harbor. 

'•^ The Thirteenth Massachusetts Battery left the State Jan. 20, 1863. It 
was in the " Department of the Gulf," and took part in the following engage- 
ments : Port Hudson, Carrion Crow Bayou and Pleasant Hill. 

^ In the Adjutant General's Office at the State House, he is credited to 
Boston ; but Melrose put him into the service, and paid his bounty. 

* The Second Massachusetts Cavalry was mustered in the early part of 
1863, and was in the following engagements : South Anna Bridge, Ashley's 
Gap, Drainesville, Aldie, Fort Stevens, Fort Reno, Rockville, Poolcsville, 
Summit P^jint, Halltown, Opequan, Winchester, Luray, Waynesboro, Tom's 
Brook, Cedar Creek, South Anna, White Oak Road, Berryville Pike, 
Charlestown, Dinwiddle's Court House, Five Forks, Saylor's Creek, Ap- 
pomattox Court House. 



^2 TIIK MKLROSE MEMORIAL. 

Co. C. 
CLARK, JAMJ'iS.' ^ 

Non-resident ; mnslered out June C), 1865. 

Co. 1). 

IJURKK, VA TRICK. 
Non-resident. 

(ilLJ.lsrJK, JOHN. 

Non-resident ; died from wounds at \Vashin{;ton, D. C, 
July 20, 186.1. 

ROBERTSON, AVI 1.1,1AM. 
Non-resilient. 

Co. II. 

HOLLIS, HENRY 1'.'^ 
Mustered out June 6, 1865. 

Co. I. 
BRANDON, I'.DWARl) A} 

Non resilient ; nnistered out June 6, 1865. 

Co. K. 
KING, DAVID II.i 

Non-resident ; nuistcred out Juno 6, 1865. 



' Enlisted May 25, 1864. 
» Eulislcd Nov. 30, iSoj. 



THIRD CAVALRY. 53 

THIRD CAVALRY.' 
Co. D. 

CAPTAIN. 

SIMONDS, JOSEPH F. 

Mustered in as Sergeant of Co. E ; wounded severely in 
the shoulder during a cavalry charge in the " Red River 
Expedition," May i8, 1864 ; promoted ist Sergeant, July 
8, 1864; 2d Lieutenant, Sept. 20, 1864; wounded in 
hand at "Battle of Opequan," Sept. 19, 1864 ; promoted 
1st Lieutenant May 28, 1865 ; at the close of the war 
the regiment was ordered to the West, to quell Lidian 
disturbances; wounded — shot through both thighs — 
at Fort Kearney, Aug. 25, 1865 ; promoted Captain 
Oct. 5, 1865; discharged Oct. 8, 1865. 

Co. G. 

PRIVATE. 

HUGHES, JAMES.2 
Non-resident. 



» The Third Massachusetts Cavalry was originally the Forty-First Regi- 
ment of Infantry. It left the State Nov. 15, 1S62, and took part in the fol- 
lowing engagements : Irish Bend, Henderson's Hill, Cane River, Georgia 
Landing, Port Hudson, Sabine Cross Roads, Muddy Bayou, I'iney Woods, 
Red River Campaign, Opequan, Fisher's Hill, Snag Point, Winchester, 
Cedar Creek, and others. 

* Enlisted April 14, 1864. 



V. 

i862. 



Nine Months' Men. 
In Freedom's name our blades we draw, 

She arms us for the fight ! 
For country, government, and law, 

For Liberty and Right. 
The Union must — shall be preserved, 

Our flag still o'er us fly ! 

That cause our hearts antl hands has nerved 

And we will do or die. 

George F. Morris. 

" We are coming, Father Abra'am, 
Three hundred thousand more. 
From Mississippi's winding stream 
And from New England's shore." 



On the 4th of August, 1862, President Lincoln issued 
his proclamation calling for three hundred thousand (300,- 
000) more troops, to serve for nine months ; a draft to be 
made if the quotas were not filled by volunteers by the 
15 th of August. 

The proportion assigned by the War Department to 
Massachusetts w^as nineteen thousand and eighty (19,080) 
men. The quota of Melrose w^as seventy-nine (79) men. 

To this call, as heretofore, Melrose responded promptly, 
sending its full quota of seventy-nine (79) men into the 
field in eight different regiments. 



OUR NINE months' MEN. S5 

A war meeting was called and held at the vestry of the 
Orthodox Church on the evening of August nth, to con- 
sult in relation to supplying these additional troops. Col- 
onel John H. Clark was chosen Chairman, and Mr. Charles 
H. Isburgh, Secretary. Speeches were made by Colonel 
Clark, Mr. George F. Stone, and several other citizens ; 
and a vote was passed recommending that the Town pay 
a bounty of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) to each 
and every person that should enlist and enter the service 
for nine months. 

A warrant for a Town Meeting was immediately issued, 
to be held August 21st, to take the matter into considera- 
tion. Colonel John H. Clark was chosen Moderator. As 
will be seen by the following vote, oftered by Mr. Stephen 
W. Shelton, the recommendation of the citizens' meeting 
was fully indorsed and adopted : 

Fofed, That the Town raise an amount of money equal or 
equivalent to the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) 
per man, for every man who is, or who may be required from 
this Town to answer to the recent call of the President of the 
United States for additional troops for nine months' service, to 
serve in the army of the United States ; and that the Treasurer is 
authorized and required, under the direction of the Selectmen, 
to borrow that amount of money and pay the same to such par- 
ties who may volunteer, and are properly and legally accepted 
by the proper and legal authorities for such service. 
It was also voted, on motion of Mr. Rufus Smith, 
That a Rallying Committee of twenty-five men be appointed 
by the Chairman of this meeting, with full powers to call meet- 
ings and perform such other duties as they may deem neces- 
sary ; and that an appropriation of three hundred dollars 
($300) for incidental expenses be made by the Town, to be 
expended under the direction of said Committee. 



56 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL, 

The following citizens were appointed to serve on that 
Committee : 

Rufus Smith, R. Watson Emerson, 

Michael A. McCafferty, Frank A. Messenger, 

Nelson Cochran, Napoleon B. Bryant, 

Moses Parker, M. D., Isaac Emerson, Jr., 

Samuel O. Dearborn, Joel Snow, 

Henry A. Norris, George W. Emerson, 

Henry B. Newhall, Philip B. Holmes, 

Fernando C. Taylor, Levi S. Gould, 

John S. Sewall, Walter Babb, 

Daniel Norton, Jr., Allen C. Goss, 

Josiah P. Mendum, Addison W. Banfield, 

George A. Bacon, Isaiah A. Young, 
Stephen W. Shelton. 

The Selectmen were afterwards joined to this Com- 
mittee. 

Several large and spirited war meetings were held at 
various places in the town, under the auspices of this Ral- 
lying Committee. The first one took place on Monday 
evening, August 25th, at Lyceum Hall. Good music was 
furnished by the Maiden Band, and some fine singing by 
a quartette. Addresses were made by Lieutenant-Colonel 
Wardwell, of the Thirty-Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, 
Hon. Daniel W. Gooch, Hon. Elihu C. Baker, Messrs. 
George W. Copcland, Guppy, and others. 

Meetings were also held on Wednesday, Thursday and 
Saturday evenings of this week, at which addresses were 
made by our citizens, and by speakers from abroad ; and 
volunteers came rapidly forward, and this quota of sev- 
enty-nine (79) was filled. 

The last week of August was almost wholly given up 



OUR NINE months' MEN. 57 

to recruiting purposes. The Governor recommended a 
suspension of business during the afternoons, and the rec- 
ommendation was very generally complied with. 

Owing to the measures taken at these various meetings, 
the following paper — whereby the signers agreed to pay 
their just proportion of all taxes, and to indemnif_y all town 
officers for any action taken in carrying out the wishes of 
the town — was circulated among the citizens for signa- 
tures : 

Agreement. 

Be it remembered, that whereas the Town of Melrose, at 
several meetings called for that purpose, have, with great una- 
nimity, passed sundry votes providing for the payment; of bounty 
to our volunteers, and for the support of their families, and 
other incidental war purposes, which votes may, upon nice 
and technical grounds, be regarded as invalid in law, — Now, 
therefore, we the undersigned. Tax-payers in the Town of Mel- 
rose, hereby waive all objection to the form, substance, or valid- 
ity of said proceedings ; and agree to pay all taxes assessed 
against us respectively arising from said votes. 

And we severally hereby release any present or future officer 
of said Town from all actions, or causes of action, on account of 
the assessment or collection of the aforesaid tax ; all of which 
we feel in duty bound to do, as true and loyal citizens, resolved 
to make any sacrifice necessary for the most vigorous prosecu- 
tion of the war, and for the honor and dignity of OL.r glorious 
flag. 

Of our nine months' volunteers, twenty-nine enlisted in 
the Forty-Second Massachusetts Regiment, all but one of 
them being in Co. G ; and they experienced the sad fate 
of falling into the hands of the rebels, at the "Battle of 
Galveston," January ist, 1863. But they were not, thank 
God ! destined to undert^o the horrors of an " Anderson- 



58 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

ville," " Salisbury," or " Belle Isle," as they were soon 
afterward paroled. 

The follawing are the names of our nhie months' men, 
with their regiment and company : 

FIFTH REGIMENT.i 
Co. A. 

PRIVATE. 

CHASE, EDE K. 

Mustered out with the regiment, July 2, 1863. 

Co. H. 

PRIVATE. 

SUMNER, STEPHEN. 
Mustered out with the regiment, July 2, 1863. 

FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT.2 
Co. G. 

CORPORAL. 

BUTTRICK, JOHN W. 
Taken prisoner at "Battle of Galveston," Jan. i, 1863 ; in 

' The Fifth Massachusetts, — which served in the three months' campaign 
at the beginning of the Rebellion, — now volunteering for nine months, left 
Boston Oct. 22, 1862, for New Berne, N. C. Its period of service was 
passed in the " Department of North Carolina," and it was in the following 
engagements: Whitehall, Kinston, Goldsboro', New Berne, Blount's Creek, 
and Moseley Creek, besides numerous expeditions and reconnoissances, 
marching six hundred miles over the poor roads of North Carolina, during 
its term of service. 

" The Forty- Second Massachusetts left the State Nov. 21, 1862, for the 
" DepaiftmCTt of the Gulf." Three companies — D, G and I — were in the 
" Battle of Galveston," Jan. i, 1863, and taken prisoners ; * afterwards 
paroled, but not exchanged ; therefore did not perform any more active ser- 
vice. The balance of the regiment served in the Louisiana campaigns. 

* " When Colonel Burrill offered his sword to the officer designated by General Magru- 
der to receive the surrender, he was desired to keep it, in respect to his brave and able 
defence of his position against such an overwhehning force; and, on being informed tliat the 
little band that stood before them were ali the troops there, the rebels could scarcely believe 
it, and were surprised they had held their position so well and so long." 



I 



FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT. 59 

prison at Houston, Texas ; paroled while on steamer 
"General Quitman," near Alexandria, La., Feb. i8, 
1863 ; mustered out with the regiment, Aug. 20, 1863. 

MUSICIAN. 

IRESON, DAVID A.i 

WAGONER. 

rUDKINS, ROLAND C.^ 

PRIVATES. 

BARRETT, CHARLES.i 

BARRETT, CHARLES L.i 

BARNARD, JOHN M., JR.i 

BOARDMAN, CHARLES.i 

BRIDGES, HENRY. 

Deserted at New York City, Dec. 6, 1862 ; non-resident. 

BRYANT, THOMAS O.i 
BURNHAM, PASCHAL E. 

Discharged March 27, 1863, for disability. 

CLARK, FREDERICK F.i 

CORSON, FREDERICK U.^ 

DAVIS, JOHN E.i 

DAVIS, JAMES L.i 2 



^ Same military history as that of Corporal Buttrick. 

'Also served ninety days in Seventh Un. Co. Infantry, in 1S64; see 
chap. VIII. 



6o 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



DOUBLE, EDMUND B.i 
Wounded in hand at "Battle of Galveston," Jan. i, 1863. 

EMERSON, JAMES G.i 2 

HETON, JOHN.i 
•HYDE, GEORGE S.i 

IRESON, ALONZO D.i 

LYNDE, AMOS W.i 2 

LYNDE, CHARLES B.i 

MARSTON, JAMES M. 
Deserted Dec. 6, 1862, at New York City ; non-resident. 

SWEETSER, THOMAS T.i 

Wounded in the mouth at " Battle of Galveston." 

MARSHALL, SAMUEL.^ 

UPHAM, CHARLES H.i 

VINTON, EDWIN A.i 3 

YORK, JOSIAH R.12 

YORK, WILLIAM B.^ ^ 

Co. H. 

PRIVATE. 

WILDE, BENJAMIN F. 
Deserted Nov. 25, 1862, at New York City. 



• Same military history as that of Corporal Buttrick. 

"Also served ninety days in Seventh Un. Co. oi Infantry in 1864; s,e.c 
chap. VIII. 

3 Also served one hundred days in Eighth Regiment in 1864 ; s,e^e 
chap. VIII. 



FORTY-THIRD REGIMENT. 6 1 

FORTY-THIRD REGIMENT.^ 
Co. A. 

PRIVATE. 

SMITH, WAYLAND R. 

Mustered out with the regiment, July 30, 1863. 

FORTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.^ 
Co. D. 

PRIVATE. 

SIMONDS, JOSEPH W. 
Mustered out with the regiment, June 18, 1863.3 

' The Forty-Third Massachusetts was in the " Department of North Car- 
olina," and was in the battles of Kinston, Whitehall, and several marches 
and skirmishes. 

* This regiment was also in the "Department of North Carolina," and 
was in the Tarboro' expedition, the battles of Kinston, Whitehall, Golds- 
boro' and Siege of Washington, N. C. It had in its ranks the astronomer 
Tuttle, of Cambridge, the two brothers Cobb, artists, and Rev. Mr. Gibbs, 
who relinquished the pastorate of the Universalist Church in West Cam- 
bridge. The following " army song " was written by " Selim," and dedicated 
to the Forty-Fourth : 

Tune — " Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled." 
From Katahdin's snowy crest, Come from homes you love so dear. 

To Mount Vernon's sacred rest, Come with hearts that know no fear, 

Through imperial valleys West, Come with might in bow and spear. 

Shout the battle-cry. Down bid slavery go. 

Hark 1 it is your country's call 1 By the prayers our fathers breathed, 

Lo ! she bids her brave sons all By the trusts to us bequeathed, 

Make the band of traitors fall. By the hopes our hearts which heaved. 

In recreant graves to lie. Smite oppression low. 

Would you see our broad domain Hail our Union's newbirthnight I 

By giant treason rent in twain. See it girt with grander might. 

In border-strifes your children slain ? Ray out now a purer light 

Back as cowards fall. To the nations round. 

Would you see our banner bright When our last victory is won. 

Wave untorn in Freedom's light, When the work of blood is done. 

Brave the world's united might? And to our loved homes we come. 

Strike, then, once for all. To God shall praises sound. 

■'Also served one hundred days in the Eighth Regiment, in 1864 ; see 
chap. VIII. 



62 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Co. E. 

PRIVATE. 

ROBERTS, CHARLES K. 
Discharged Jan. 14, 1863, for disability. 

Co. G. 

PRIVATE. 

HART, ABNER B. 
Mustered out June 18, 1863. 

Co. H. 

PRIVATE. 

DAWES, RICHARD C. 

Mustered out June 18, 1863.' 

Co. I. 

PRIVATES. 

ANDERSON, LEONARD B. 
Mustered out June 18, 1863. 

CROCKER, JOSEPH C. 
Mustered out June 18, 1863.2 



' Appointed Acting Ensign in the navy Dec. i6, 1S63, but he was then liv- 
ing in Brookline. He served until Jan. 11, 1867, when he was honorably 
discharged. 

^ Also served nine months as clerk in the Quartermaster's Department, 
Headquarters iSth Army Corps, Army of the James. 



THE FORTY-FIFTH REGIMENT. 63 

FORTY-FIFTH REGIMENT.^ 
Co. A. 

MUSICIAN. 

FREELAND, JOSEPH V. 

Mustered out with the regiment, July 7, 1863 ; non-resi- 
dent. 

Co. D. 

SERGEANT. 

BARRY, ROYAL P. 
Promoted Corporal Sept. 27, 1862; Sergeant, June 19, 
1863 ; mustered out July 7, 1863. 

PRIVATES. 

CUTTING, WILLIAM H., JR. 

Mustered out July 7, 1863. 

EVANS, THOMAS C. 
Wounded in both hands and leg at " Battle of Kinston," 
Dec. 14, 1862 ; discharged Feb. 27, 1863. 
FOBS, JAMES T. 
Wounded at "Battle of Kinston," Dec. 14, 1862; mus- 
tered out July 7, 1863. 

LEIGHTON, WILLIAM F. 
Mustered out July 7, 1863. 

CHIPMAN, GEORGE A. 
Mustered out July 7, 1863.^ 



» The Forty-Fifth Massachusetts was in the " Department of North Caro- 
lina," and in the battles of Kinston, Whitehall, and several skirmishes and 
reconnoissances. 

« Also served one hundred days as Lieutenant, Co. A, Sixth Regiment, m 

1864; see chap. VIII. 



64 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

MARSHALL, JAMES. 

Mustered out July 7, 1863. 

Mclaughlin, george w. 

Mustered out July 7, 1863.^ 

PERKINS, JOHN, JR. 

Wounded in thigh at " Battle of Kinston," Dec. 14. 1862 ; 
discharged May 21, 1863. 

JUNKINS, EDWIN W. 

Mustered out July 7, 1863. 

Co. L 

PRIVATES. 

DORRING, JOHN. 
Mustered out July 7, 1863 ; non-resident. 
FOSS, GEORGE A. 

Mustered out July 7, 1863 ; non-resident. 

FERGUSON, JOHN. 
Mustered out July 7, 1863 ; non-resident. 

HARRIS, JOHN. 

Mustered out July 7, 1863 ; non-resident. 

MYARS, JOHN. 
Mustered out July 7, 1863 ; non-resident. 



' Was a minor at time of enlistment. For form of parent's consent in 
such cases sec Appendix C. 



THE FORTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT. 65 

FORTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.^ 
Co. D. 

SERGEANT. 

TODD, THOMAS. 

Mustered out Sept. 3, 1863 ; non-resident. 

MUSICIAN. 

RICHARDSON, ALFRED C. 
Died Aug. 8, 1863, at Baton Rouge, La. ; non-resident. 

PRIVATE. 

CRANE, WILLIAM P., JR. 
Mustered out Sept. 3, 1863 ; non-resident. 

Co. G. 

SERGEANT. 

HARE, ANDREW. 
Mustered out Sept. 3, 1863. 

FIFTIETH REGIMEN T.2 
Co. D. 

SERGEANT. 

ROWELL, STEPHEN P. 
Mustered out with the regiment, Aug. 24, 1863. 



' The Forty-Eighth Massachusetts left New York for the " Department of 
the Gulf," Jan. 4, 1863, and was engaged in the "Siege of Port Hudson," 
and marches and skirmishes in that Department. 

* The Fiftieth Massachusetts was in the " Department of the Gulf," and 
left the State Nov. 19, 1862. Took part in Siege of Port Hudson, and 
marches and expeditions in that Department. 



66 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

MUSICIAN. 

NICHOLS, WILLIAM R. 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1 863 ; non-resident. 

Co. E. 

PRIVATES. 

BARRON, ELLIOT F. 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1863. 

BROWN, JONAS G. 
Died June 18, 1863, in Regimental Hospital at Baton 
Rouge, La., of malarial fever.^ 

COX, JAMES P. 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1863. 

DIX, JOSEPH 0.2 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1863. 

FARRELL, MICHAEL. 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1863. 

FULLER, GEORGE P. 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1 863. 

LYMAN, HENRY H. 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1 863. 

MCALLISTER, GEORGE H. 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1863. 



' For obituary sketch, see "Roll of Honor." 

*Also served three months in 1861, in Co. B, Fifth Regiment, from South 
Reading. 



THE FIFTIETH REGIMENT. 67 

O'DONAGHUE, JOHN. 

Deserted Nov. 22, 1862, at New York City ; non-resident. 

PRENTICE, CHARLES. 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1863. 

SHELTON, THOMAS.i 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1863. 

SIMONDS, CHARLES H. 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1863 ; non-resident.^ 

HAMILTON, ROBERT. 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1863 ; non-resident. 

HARRINGTON, CHARLES T. 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1863 ; non-resident. 

HAWKES, JOHN. 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1863 ; non-resident. 
KINGMAN, WILLIAM W. 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1863 ; non-resident. 

KNIGHTS, HENRY C. 
Mustered out Aug. 24, 1863 ; non-resident. 

Co. F. 

PRIVATES. 

GALLAGHER, JOHN. 
Deserted Oct. 20, 1862, at Boxford, Mass. ; non-resident. 



' Also served one hundred days in the Eighdi Regiment in 1864; see 
chap. VIII. 

* Resident of Maiden ; re-enlisted in Co. K, Fifty-Ninth Regiment ; lost 
a leg before Petersburg, June 17, 1864. 



68 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

WILSON, JOHN. 
Deserted Oct. 20, 1862, at Boxford, Mass. ; non-resident. 

At the commencement of the year 1863, Massachusetts 
had sent into the field forty-six thousand nine hundred 
and twenty (46,920) three years' men, sixteen thousand 
eight hundred and thirty-seven (16,837) riine months' 
men, and three thousand seven hundred and thirty-six 
(3'736) three months' men ; making a total of sixty-seven 
thousand four hundred and ninety-three (67,493) men ; 
thirteen thousand six hundred and eighteen (13,618) men 
had also entered into the naval service of the United 
States, for which Massachusetts had received no credit, 
making a total number of men furnished by Massachu- 
setts of eighty-one thousand one hundred and eleven 
(81,111). 

General Schouler says of Massachusetts at this time : 

She had gi\-en martyrs to the great cause on nearly every 
battlefield ; many had their limbs severed from their bodies ; 
many households had been made desolate ; many stood by the 
butts of their muskets, keeping watch and ward, facing the 
enemy from the falls of the Potomac to the delta of the Missis- 
sippi. Some were in prison, some were in hospitals, some were 
in tents, some swinging in their hammocks at the mouths of riv- 
ers, to prevent blockade runners from supplying the enemy. 

And Governor Andrew, in his address to the Legisla- 
ture at the beginning of 1863, eloquently refers to the 
part taken by Massachusetts men ; after recapitulating 
the many battlefields from " Big Bethel " and " Cedar 
Mountain " to " Baton Rouge " and " Antietam," he con- 
tinues : 

Through all the capricious fortunes of the war the regiments 
of Massachusetts have borne her flag by the side of the banner 



NUMBER OF MEN FURNISHED. 



69 



of the Union. And, beyond the Atlant.e slope, every baU e- 
fiekl has drunk the blood of her sons, nurtured among he. h.lls 
and sands, from which in adventurous manhood they turned 
their footsteps to the West. Officers and enlisted men have 
vied with each other in deeds of valor. The flag, ^vhose stan- 
dard-bearer, shot down in battle, tossed it from his dy.ng hand, 
nerved by undying patriotism, has been caught by the comrade, 
:ho in hL turn hts closed his eyes for the last fme upon r ^ 
starry folds as another hero-martyr clasped the sp mtered staf^ 
and rescued the symbol at once of count,7 and of blood-bonght 

'^"'nowcan fleeting words of human praise gild the record of 
their .lory ? Our :yes suffused with tears, and blood retreatmg 
o;he^irt.stirre/with unwonted thrill, speak -* «- j'- 
qrrence of nattrre, uttered but unexpressed. From the dm o 
the batde they have passed to the peace °f --"■'>'• J^^t 
warrior, citizen, patriot, lover, friend. - whether ■" - "j 
ranks or bearing the sword of offical power, -he*" P"va^e 
captain surgeon or chaplain, for all these m the heady figh 
hive passel away, -hail, and farewell! Each ero mr.t 
sleep serenely on the field where he fell ur a cause saced to 
liberty and the rights of manknid." 

Melrose had sent into the service up to this fme - Jan- 
uary ,, ■863,-one hundred and twenty-s.x ( 26) th ee 
years' men, five (5) of whom were comm.ss.oned offi e s 
Lenty-nine (79) "ine months' men, and Ave (5 h.ee 
months' men ; and had also furn.shed seven (7) me^r for 
the navy ; one of whom had been transferred from the 
army; one discharged and enlisted in the army, and fomr 
of 3hom were commissioned officers; making a total 
number furnished of two hundred and sixteen (216 men. 
The officers in the army were: Second Lieutenant Gui- 
don McKay, of the Twenty-Second Regiment ; Second 



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THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Lieutenant George T. Martin, of the Thirty-Eighth Regi- 
ment ; First Lieutenant Archibald Bogle, of the Seven- 
teenth Regiment; Captain Joseph R. Simonds, of the 
Seventeenth Regiment, and First Lieutenant J. Wesley 
Jones, of the Twelfth U. S. Infantry. In the navy. Act- 
ing Master's Mate N. Mayo Dyer, Acting Ensign James 
F. Perkins, Acting Ensign Edward A, Small, and Lieu- 
tenant Smith W. Nichols, Jr. 

The total quota of Melrose to this date, of three years' 
and nine months' men, was one hundred and eighty-four 
(184), and we had furnished two hundred and ten (210) 
men for those periods of service. 

On the 22d of September of this year, — 1862, — was 
issued the great Proclamation by President Lincoln, 
declaring that the slaves of all persons in States which, on 
the 1st day of January, 1863, should be in rebellion, " shall 
be thenceforth and forever free." Concerning this act it 
has been eloquently said : 

" As yet the policy of the Nation was undefined. Nor did it 
reach the dignity of positive justice, clearly pronounced, until, 
by the great Proclamation of Liberty, the Government became 
anchored to an immortal thought, and decreed Emancipation, 
By that act the President ascended a height more lofty than 
Federal Hill. He rose to the serene heights of Zion, received 
liglit and knowledge and power from an Eternal Source, fixed 
by a word the moral judgment of mankind in sympathy with 
our national cause, secured the verdict of history and the 
prayers of the good in every land, and humbly awaited ' the 
gracious favor of Almighty God.' " 



VL 

i86 



J) • 



Three Years' Men. 

" The Sun of Liberty shall ne'er 
In clouds and darkness set ; 
Her sons are brave, — they know no fear, 
And God is with us yet." 



An Enrollment or Conscription Act having been passed 
by Congress, for the purpose of recruiting the forces in 
the field, and making up deficiencies on the calls previ- 
ously made, a new enrollment of the men liable to do 
military duty was ordered, and a draft of such enrolled 
men to be made in July, 1863. 

These enrolled men were divided into two classes. The 
first class comprised all persons subject to do military duty 
between the ages of twenty and thirty-five years, and all 
unmarried persons subject to do military duty between 
thirty-five and forty-five. The second class comprised 
the married men who were subject to do military duty 
and were more than thirty-five, but under forty-five years 
of age. 

On the 25th of May, Provost-Marshal Herrick appointed 
Mr. Stephen Shclton " Enrolling Officer for Sub-District 
No. 9, Town of Melrose," who immediately entered upon 



72 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

the duties of his office ; ^ and by this enrollment it was 
ascertained that there were in our town, at this time, 
exclusive of those then in the service, one hundred and 
sixty-two (162) persons of the first class, and one hun- 
dred and twenty-one (121) of the second class.^ In the 
whole State it was ascertained that there were one hun- 
dred and seven thousand, three hundred and eighty-six 
(107,386) persons of the first class, and fifty-six thou- 
sand, seven hundred ninety-two (56,792) of the second 
class ; a total of one hundred and sixty-four thousand, one 
hundred and seventy-eight (164,178). 

This draft was to be made from the enrolled of the first 
class. 

The result of this first draft of the Melrose men is 
given on another page. Owing to the great number of 
exemptions that were made, the additions to the men in 
the service, by means of the draft, were small ; conse- 
quently, to carry on this gigantic struggle with treason, it 
was found necessary to issue another call, which was made 
by the President, October 17, 1863, for three hundred 
thousand (300,000) more troops, to serve for three years, 
or during the war. 

The quota of Massachusetts, on this last call, was found 
to be fifteen thousand, one hundred and twenty-six (15,- 
126) men ; and that of Melrose to be twenty-four (24) 
men. 

It was determined that another draft in Melrose should 
be avoided if possible. A Town meeting was held Novem- 



' Mr. Shelton was re-appointed to the same position May 6, 1864, and he 
made the necessary returns of the additions and changes in the enrolhnent 
for that year. For letter of instructions, see a]ipendix H. 

* For the names of the enrolled, see appendix D. 



OUR RECRUITING COMMITTEE. 73 

ber 14th, at which Hon. N. B. Bryant was chosen Moder- 
ator. It was voted that a Committee of four be appointed 
by the Chair, which, in conjunction with the Selectmen, 
— John H. Clark, Wilham B. Burgess and George M. 
Fletcher, — should constitute a Recruiting Committee, 
with full powers to act in such manner as would best 
enable the Town to fill its quota under the recent call of 
the President. Stephen W. Shelton, Isaac Emerson, Jr., 
Rufus Smith and Charles H. Isburgh were appointed to 
act on this Committee, and three thousand dollars ($3,000) 
were appropriated to defray its expenses. 

During the latter part of the year 1863, and the begin- 
ning of 1864, re-enlistments of the men already in service 
commenced, and the Recruiting Committee secured quite 
a number of such re-enlistments,^ thus reducing the quota. 

The Fifty-Ninth Veteran Regiment was also forming at 
this time, and a number of the men that enlisted in this 
regiment were obtained; also a number, — some of them 
our own citizens, — that entered the Third Heavy Artillery. 

We now give the rest of the names of those who entered, 
or re-entered, the service, in the Massachusetts regiments, 
at or soon after this time, counting on our quota. Where- 
ever re-enlistments of our men took place in regiments 
already mentioned on previous pages, such re-enlistments 
are there stated, and do not appear here. As heretofore, 
no special effort has been made to obtain items concern- 
ing non-residents. 



* All who thus re-enlisted were called " Veteran Volunteers," received a 
thirty-days' furlough, a United States bounty of four hundred dollars, and, 
as an honorable distinction, " service chevrons " were authorized by the War 
Department. Over 136,000 tried soldiers were thus secured to the service. 
10,000 re-enlisted in Massachusetts. 
10 



74 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

FIFTEENTH REGIMENT.i 
Co. A. 

PRIVATE. 

ARNOLD, CHARLES H. 
Non-resident. 

Co. B. 

PRIVATE. 

WALSH, THOMAS. 

Transferred to Fifteenth Battalion, July 12, 1864; non- 
resident. 

FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENT.2 

PRIVATES. 

BARRY, JOHN. 
Non-resident. 

FRISBY, JOHN. 
Non-resident. 

HAGGERTY, DANIEL. 

Non-resident ; discharged for disability, Dec. 15, 1863. 
LEVER, RICHARD. 

Killed at " Battle of Spottsylvania," May 1 2, 1 864. 

JENKINS, GEORGE. 
Non-resident. 



^ The Fifteenth Massachusetts left the State Aug. 8, 1861. Was in battles 
of Ball's Bluff, of the Peninsula, and most of the other battles participated 
in by the " Army of the Potomac." 

'^ The Fifty-Ninth Veteran Massachusetts left the State April 26, 1S64. It 
took part in the following engagements : Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North 
Anna River, Cool Arbor, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Poplar Spring 
Church, Hatcher's Run and Fort Stedman. 



THE FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENT. 75* 

MULCOTT, ADOLPHUS. 

Non-resident 

O'REGAN, MICHAEL. 
Non-resident. 

Co. B. 

PRIVATES. 

HALPINE, BARTHOLOMEW. 

Non-resident, 

LEWIS, WALTER H. 
Non-resident. 

JACKSON, HENRY M. 
Non-resident. 

JOHNSON, WILLIAM A. 
Non-resident. 

PERKINS, BENJAMIN W. 

Non-resident; discharged April i8, 1865. 

Co. D. 

PRIVATES. 

MARRA, JAMES. 
Non-resident, 

PEASLEY, CHARLES D. 
Non-resident. 

Co. F. 

PRIVATES. 

ALDRIDGE, WILLIAM H. 
Non-resident, 

RYAN, MICHAEL. 
Non-resident. 

YOUNG, JOHN' W. 
Non-resident. 



76 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

Co. G. 

LIEUTENANT. 

MORSE, GEORGE J. 

Commissioned 2d Lieutenant Oct. 22, 1863 ; promoted 
1st Lieutenant March 4, 1864; killed at the "Battle of 
Spottsylvania," May 12, 1864.^ 

Co. H. 

SERGEANT. 

STONE, HENRY. 

Wounded through the hand at the " Battle of the Wilder- 
ness," May 6, 1864 ; taken prisoner at Weldon Railroad, 
Aug. 20, 1864; held in " Libby Prison" a month and 
then exchanged ; mustered out with the regiment, July 
30, 1865. 

THIRD HEAVY ARTILLERY.^ 
Co. C. 

PRIVATES. 

CHEEVER, AUGUSTUS L. 
Discharged March 9, 1865, for disability. 
GROVER, ANDREW J. 
Mustered out with the regiment, Sept. 18, 1865. 



^ For biographical sketch see " Roll of Honor." 

* The Third Massachusetts Regiment of Heavy Artillery was composed 
of unattached companies, part of which were on duty in the coast defences 
of this State ; in the fall of 1864 the regiment was sent to Washington, and 
served in its Forts until mustered out, SepL 18, 1865. 



THIRD HEAVY ARTILLERY. 77 

GROVER, GEORGE W., JR. 

Mustered out Sept. i8, 1865. 

HAMMOND, GEORGE. 
Transferred to navy, July 28, 1864. ^ 

RICHARDSON, WILLIAM H. 
Mustered out Sept. 18, 1865. 

Co. F. 

PRIVATES. 

DAVIS, JOHN W. 
Deserted at Fort Stephens, D. C, June 23, 1865 ; non- 
resident. 

DAVIS, LOAMI G. 

Left the regiment, June 18, 1865, by permission. 

FARGO, CHARLES O. 
Discharged March 10, 1865, for disabiUty.- 

Co. K. 

PRIVATES. 

REARDON, LAWRENCE. 
Mustered out Sept. 18, 1865; non-resident. 

TURCK, JOHN. 
Discharged July 29, 1864, for disability; non-resident. 



* See chap. IX. 

2 Served previously in the Tenth Maine Regiment ; severely wounded in 
the hip at "Battle of Cedar Mountain," Aug. 9, 1862 ; discharged Feb. 10, 
1S63. 



78 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



FOURTH HEAVY ARTILLERY.^ 
Co. C. 

LIEUTENANT, 

MARTIN, GEORGE T. 

Commissioned Senior ist Lieutenant Aug. i6, 1864; died 

at Massachusetts General Hospital, March 13, 1865, of 

pyaemia.^ 

Co. K. 

LIEUTENANT. 

NICHOLS, GEORGE G.^ 
Commissioned ist Lieutenant Twenty-Fifth Un. Co. 
Heavy Artillery, — afterwards Co. K, Fourth Regiment, 
— Aug. 18, 1864 ; appointed Regimental Quartermas- 
ter Dec, 17, 1864; appointed Acting Assistant Quar- 
termaster, Third Brigade, DeRussey's Division, on 
Staff Colonel William S, King, Commanding Brigade, 
Dec. 20, 1864; mustered out, June 17, 1865. 

FIFTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.'' 
Co. A. 

PRIVATES. 

BUSH, HENRY. 
Died from burns, Feb. 23, 1863 ; non-resident. 



' The Fourth Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, like the Third, was com- 
posed of unattached companies and sent to Washington, and served in its 
defences until its muster-out, June 17, 1865. It was raised for one year's 
service, 

' For biographical sketch see " Roll of Honor." 

3 Served nine months in 1862-3, i" Forty-Second Regiment, but on Bos- 
ton's quota. 

•♦ The Fifty- Fourth Massachusetts was the first colored regiment raised in 
Massachusetts, and left the State May 28, 1S63, and took part in the follow- 
ing engagements : Fort Wagner and the several engagements before Charles- 
ton, Olustee, James Island, Honey Hill and Boykin's Mills. 



THE FIFTY-SIXTH REGIMENT. 79 

JOHNSON, WILLIAM H. 

Non-resident.^ 

FIFTY -SIXTH REGIMENT. 2 
Co. B. 

PRIVATE. 

YORK, BENJAMIN F. 
Taken prisoner at "Mine Explosion," July 30, 1864-, at 

Danville, Va., eight months ; exchanged April i, 1865 ; 

mustered out June 16, 1865. 

At the end of the year 1863, Massachusetts had fur- 
nished for the army in the field a total of eighty-three 
thousand, nine hundred and thirty-two (83,932) men; 
sixty-three thousand, three hundred and fifty-nine (63,359) 
of which were for the three years' service, sixteen thou- 
sand, eight hundred and thirty-seven (16,837) for the nine 
months' service, and three thousand seven hundred and 
thirty-six (3,736) for the three months' service ; and from 
the commencement of the Rebellion to the end of this 
year, seventeen thousand, three hundred and four (17,304) 
men had entered the navy, for which Massachusetts had, 
as yet, received no credit on its quotas ; this made a grand 



1 The whole number of negro troops commissioned and enlisted durmg 
the war was 186,017 ; the largest number in the service at any one time was 
123 156. The State in which the largest number of colored soldiers was re- 
cruited or drafted was Louisiana, viz : 24,052 ; the smallest number, Texas, 
viz: 45. Massachusetts furnished 4.987; Melrose, 2. 

2 The Fifty-Sixth Massachusetts Veteran Regiment left the State March 
21, 1864, and took part in the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna River, 
Cool Arbor, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Poplar Spring Church, Hatcher's 
Run and Siege of Petersburg. 



8o THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

total of one hundred and one thousand, two hundred and 
thirty-six (101,236) men furnished by the State, up to the 
end of the year 1863, for the United States service. 

The following commissioned officers from Melrose were 
in the service at this time : In the army. Second Lieuten- 
ant George J. Morse, of the Fifty-Ninth Regiment ; First 
Lieutenant J. Wesley Jones, of the Twelfth U. S. Infan- 
try ; Captain Joseph R. Simonds, of the Seventeenth Reg- 
iment ; Captain J. Spencer Drayton, and Major Archibald 
Bogle, of the Thirty-Fifth U. S. Colored Troops. In the 
navy. Acting Ensigns N. Mayo Dyer, James F. Perkins and 
Edward A. Small, and Lieutenant Smith W. Nichols, Jr. 

Of the position held by Massachusetts in this great 
struggle at this time. Governor Andrew thus eloquently 
speaks in his address to the Legislature on the 8th of Jan- 
uary, 1864: 

But the heart swells with unwonted emotion when we remem- 
ber our sons and brothers, whose constant valor has sustained 
on the field, during nearly three years of war, the cause of our 
country, of civiUzation, and liberty. Our volunteers have rep- 
resented Massachusetts, during the year just ended, on almost 
every field and in every department of the army where our flag 
has been unfurled. At Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, 
Port Hudson and Fort Wagner, at Chickamauga, Knoxville and 
Chattanooga, — under Hooker, and Meade, and Banks, and Gil- 
more, and Rosecrans, Burnside and Grant, — in every scene of 
danger and of duty, along the Atlantic and the Gulf, on the 
Tennessee, the Cumberland, the Mississippi and the Rio Grande, 
— under Dupont, and Dahlgren, and Foote, and Farragut, and 
Porter, — the sons of Massachusetts have borne their part, and 
paid the debt of patriotism and valor. Ubiquitous as the stock 
they descend from, national in their opinions and universal in 
their sympathies, they have fought shoulder to shoulder with men 



AN ELOQUENT EXTRACT. 



81 



of all sections and of every extraction. On the ocean, on the 
rivers, on the land, on the heights where they thundered down 
from the clouds of Lookout Mountain the defiance of the skies, 
they liave graven witli their swords a record imperishable. 

The muse herself demands the lapse of silent years to 
soften, by the influences of time, her too keen and poignant 
realization of the scenes of war — the pathos, the heroism, the 
fierce joy, the grief, of battle. But, during the ages to come, 
she will brood over their memory. Into the hearts of her con- 
secrated priests will breathe the inspirations of lofty and undy- 
ing beauty, sublimity and truth, in all the glowing forms of 
speech, of literature and plastic art. By the homely traditions 
of the fireside, — by the head stones in the churchyard, conse- 
crated to those whose forms repose far off in rude graves by the 
Rappahannock, or sleep beneath the sea, — embalmed in the 
memories of succeeding generations of parents and children, 
the heroic dead will live on in immortal youth. By their 
names, their character, th ' service, their fate, their glory, they 
cannot fail ; 

" They never fail who die 
In a great cause ; the block may soak their gore ; 
Their heads may sodden in the sun, their limbs 
Be strung to city gates and castle walls ; 
But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years 
Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, 
They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts 
Which overpower all others, and conduct 
The world at last to Freedom. " 



II 



VII. 

1864-5- 



Our glorious banner no traitor shall mar, 
By effacing a stripe, or destroying a star ! 

Francis De Haes jfanvier. 



At the annual Town Meeting in March, 1864, Mr, Isaac 
Emerson, Jr., was excused, at his own request, from serv- 
ing longer on the Recruiting Committee, and Mr. William 
E. Fuller was elected Selectman in place of Mr. George 
M. Fletcher ; and the Recruiting Committee now con- 
sisted of the following gentlemen: — Colonel John H. 
Clark, Chairman and Recruiting Agent,^ William B. Bur- 



' Provost-Marshal's Office, ^ 
6th District, Mass., >- 
Lawrence, November 6, 1863.) 
To the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Melrose : — 

Sir, — You are hereby informed that, under the authority of the Provost- 
Marshal General U. S-, and by direction of Major F. N. Clarke, A. A., Pro- 
vost-Marshal General of this State, I have appointed you a Recruiting 
Agent for your town, in accordance with the Regulations for the Bureau of 
the Provost-Marshal General of Oct. 28, 1863. 

Please report to me personally, if you accept the appointment. If you do 
not accept, so inform me by mail immediately. 

Very respectfully. 

Your ob't servant, 

H. G. Herrick, 
Captain and Provost-Marshal, 6th Dist. Mass. 



TOWN MEETING. 



83 



gess, William E. Fuller, Stephen W. Shelton, Rufus Smith 
and Charles H. Isburgh. At a subsequent Town Meet- 
ing, held April nth, it was voted that this same Recruit- 
ing; Committee continue its labors, and four thousand 
dollars ($4,000) were appropriated for its use. This Com- 
mittee acted throughout the continuance of the war ; and 
by its spirited and strenuous exertions, — and also of the 
Committee as previously constituted, — no other draft 1 
was ever needed in order to fill our several quotas under 
the calls of the President, issued in October, 1863, and 
February, March, July and December, 1864, in which calls 
a million and a half of men were asked for. A second 
draft was made, of the enrolled men, in April, 1 864, but 
none of the drafted were required to report, as the quotas 
were then filled.^ 

Various measures were taken to aid this Committee in 
its efforts to procure men, with which to fill our difterent 
quotas. On the 6th of June, 1864, a Town Meeting was 
held, at which Colonel John H. Clark was chosen Moder- 
ator ; and, on motion of Mr. Walter Babb, it was voted : 

That the Town of Melrose appropriate the sum of ten thou- 
sand dollars ($10,000) for the purpose of procuring recruits for 
any future calls there may be made by the President of the 
United States for soldiers, and to make up any deficiencies that 
there is, or has occurred, in the last call for volunteers ; and 
that the present Recruiting Committee of the Town of Melrose 
proceed immediately to recruit or procure men in anticipation 
of the next call, or calls, that may be made by the President of 
the United States. And that the Selectmen be instructed to 



» One draft took place in July, 1863 ; for names of the citizens drawn, and 
the disposition of the same, see chap. X. 

* For names of the citizens drawn at this time, sec chap. X. 



84 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

procure the bodies of all those of our citizen soldiers who have 
or may lose their lives in this war, and have them transported 
to their relatives or friends. 

And it was also voted : 

That the Town Treasurer be instructed to borrow, from time 
to time, such sums of money as might be required of the amount 
appropriated. 

The raising of money for this purpose, in this manner, 
was illegal, as the Legislature of Massachusetts had pro- 
vided, by the act of March 16, 1864, that cities and towns 
might raise money by taxation, or otherwise, for the pur- 
pose of procuring volunteers, and pay to each one enlisted 
into the service as a part of the quota of said cities and 
towns, a sum not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five 
dollars ($125). 

A petition was drawn up, signed by thirty-four citizens, 
and presented to the Supreme Judicial Court, asking for 
an injunction on the proceedings at the above Town 
Meeting. Such an injunction was issued by Chief Justice 
George T. Bigelow, on the nth of June, 1864. This was 
afterwards so far modified as to permit the paying of one 
hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125), by the Recruiting 
Committee, to each recruit enlisted and accepted by the 
United States authorities under any call of the President 
made between the first day of March, 1864, and the first 
day of March, 1865, as a part of the quota of the town of 
Melrose under said calls. 

At this time recruits for the army cost a larger sum than 
one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125); therefore a cit- 
izens' meeting was called, to take into consideration the 
best manner of raising a sum of money, as a recruiting 



RECRUITING FUND MEETINGS. 



85 



fund, to aid the Committee in the furnishing of men for our 
quotas. There was a very large attendance at this meet- 
ing, and it was decided to raise the money needed by sub- 
scription. A pajjer was drawn up, which was headed by 
Mr. Wingate P. Sargent ; and at this and subsequent 
times, a sum of nearly six thousand dollars ($6,000) was 
raised for recruiting purposes, to be expended under the 
auspices of the Recruiting Committee. 

At the second meeting, held for the purpose of raising 
this fund, the following gentlemen were chosen a Com- 
mittee to collect the amounts already subscribed, and 
to solicit additional subscriptions from the citizens. 
Messrs. Wingate P. Sargent, Daniel Norton, Jr., Levi S. 
Gould, Isaac Emerson, Jr., Thomas A. Long and Joseph 
D. Wilde. Mr. Sargent was appointed Treasurer, and, 
after the collections were made, the money was paid over 
by him to Colonel Clark, as Chairman of the Recruiting 
Committee. 

The names of the subscribers to this fund, and the 
amounts paid, are as follows : 



Wingate P. Sargent 
Daniel Norton, Jr. . 
Rufus Smith . 
Alverse L. White . 
Isaac Emerson, Jr. . 
Wickham C. McNish 
Samuel E. Sewall . 
Daniel W. Gooch . 
Daniel W. Foster . 
Samuel S. Houghton 
Joseph D. Wilde . 
Elisha F. Sears 



$250 00 

130 00 

100 00 

100 00 

100 00 

100 00 

100 00 

100 00 

100 00 

80 00 

75 00 

75 00 



86 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Ralph Warren 










75 oo 


Charles H. Isburgh 










75 oo 


George A. Mansfield 










75 oo 


Nathaniel J. Bartlett 










75 oo 


George G. Wheeler . 










6o oo 


Jeremiah Crowley . 










50 00 


William H. Allen . 










50 00 


Edgar M. Stevens . 










50 00 


Levi S. Gould 










50 00 


Ira H. Bickford 










50 00 


Frank O. Dame 










50 00 


George Hart . 










50 00 


William F. Morse . 










50 00 


Oliver Whyte . 










50 00 


Gardner Wheeler . 










50 00 


Walter Littlefield, Jr. 










50 00 


Henry A. Norris 










50 00 


Napoleon B. Bryant 










50 00 


Andrew P. Trott . 










50 00 


R. Watson Emerson 










50 00 


Augustus Barrett . 










50 00 


John Baldwin . 










50 00 


Joseph H. Greene . 










50 00 


William H. Stone . 










50 00 


Simeon Locke 










50 00 


Alonzo V. Lynde . 










50 00 


George Emerson 










50 00 


George F. Stone 










50 00 


Frank A. Messenger 










50 00 


Oren H. Peck 










45 00 


Joseph A. Fairbanks 










40 00 


George M. Fletcher 










30 00 


S. W. Heald . 










30 00 



citizens' recruiting fund. 



87 



James M. Beckett . 
Edward R. Knights 
John L. Allen 
Jarvis P. Hudson 
Albert P. Perkins . 
Thomas A. Long . 
Erastus F. Bradford 
Benjamin F. Greene 
George N. Noyes . 
Dr. George Macomber 
Joel Bowker 
Charles H, Blaisdell 
Daniel Jefferson 
Dr. Moses Parker . 
Allen C. Goss 
Fernando C. Taylor 
Joseph E. Westgate 
James A. Barrett 
George C. Sargent 
Samuel S. Bugbee 
Anthony Crosby 
John H. Clark 
George Newhall 
William O. Lynde 
Charles Larrabee 
John S. Higgins 
John Shelton . 
C. Edgar Bufifum 
Henry A. Leonard 
Rufus Leavitt 
Robert J. Chute 
Obadiah S. Edgerly 
Sargent F. Severence 



30 00 
30 00 
30 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 oo- 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 



88 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL, 



Liberty Bigelow 
John Conway, Jr. 
Jonathan Barrett 
Charles Boardman 
John W. Cobb 
Elbridge Gardner 
Peter Edgerly 
Jeremiah Martin 
Horatio N. Perkins 
George F. Boardman 
Josiah P. Mendum . 
Stephen Shelton 
Lewis G. Coburn . 
Frederick W. A. Rankin 
Thomas J. Kimball 
John S. Sewall 
Elbridge H. Goss 
John W. Tower 
George R. Forsythe 
P. Russell Ellis 
Sylvanus Upham 
Charles Furneaux 
Edward B. Newhall 
John Smith 
Nelson Cochran 
John W. Buttrick 
Daniel O. Morton 
Leonard Lynde 
Henry B. Newhall 
Artemas Barrett 
George W. Bartlett 
Robert W. Pierce 
George W. Pollock 



Jr. 



25 00 

25 GO 
25 GO 
25 GO 
25 GO 
25 GO 
25 GO 
25 GO 
25 GO 
25 GO 
25 GO 
25 GO 
25 GO 
25 GO 
25 GO 
2G GO 
20 GO 
20 GO 
20 GO 
20 GO 
20 GO 
20 GO 
20 GO 
20 GO 
20 GO 
20 GO 
20 GO 
20 GO 
20 GO 
20 GO 
2G GO 
20 GO 
20 GO 



citizens' recruiting fund. 



89 



George B. Sargent . 
Caleb Howard 
Christopher Kirmes 
Joseph Mclntire 
James Astle . 
John L. Andrews . 
William F. Poole 
Lyell T. Terwillager 
Alfred W. Sprague 
William H. Wells . 
George A, Chipman 
Isaiah A. Young 
Benjamin Underwood 
Charles A. Messenger 
Walter Babb . 
Solomon Severy 
John Q. Adams 
Alonzo Patterson . 
Samuel O. Dearborn 
Peter Batchelder 
Joel Atwood . 
George C. Stantial . 
Thomas W. Chadbourne 
Asa H. Jones . 
Samuel M. Tourtellot 
George Hemminway 
Samuel Barker 
Martin Ellis . 
Walter R. Collins . 
William B. Burgess 
Charles E. Keith 
Samuel F. Summers 
John Robson . 



20 00 
20 00 
20 00 
20 00 
20 00 
20 00 
20 00 
20 00 
20 00 
20 00 
20 00 
20 00 
20 00 
20 00 
20 00 
15 00 
15 00 
15 00 
15 00 

15 00 

15 00 
15 00 
15 00 
15 00 

15 00 

14 00 
10 00 

10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 



90 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Dr. Benjamin F. Abbott 
William W. Vaughn 
G. W. Oilman . 
Calvin Stone . 
William D. Stratton 
Sullivan C. Atwood 
Calvin N. Chapin . 
Hiram D. Richardson 
Azel E. Steele 
Elbridge Green 
Benjamin Roach 
Charles P. Lynde . 
Rev. Nathan P. Selee 
James S. Sturtevant 
William M. Gilmore 
James Small . 
Alvin Lynde . 
William Clark 
J. B. Daniels . 
Lawrence K. Munn 
Charles F. Bowker . 
Moses A. Noyes 
Addison Lane 
Edmund B. Little . 
William L. Pierce . 
Royal P. Barry 
Lewis H. Richardson 
Jabez G. Hayward . 
Francis Fountain 
George Sargent 
Dexter Pratt , 
George C. Brown 
Dr. Abel Astle 











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citizens' recruiting fund. 



9^ 



George Lynde 










10 oo 


Josiah H. Barker . 










5 oo 


Martin B. Loring . 










5 oo 


J. T. Marcy . 










5 oo 


George W. Fisher . 










5 oo 


Albert A. Gould . 










5 oo 


Benjamin R. Walker 










5 oo 


Augustus Brooks 










5 oo 


William Finnegan . 










5 oo 


Dennis Finnegan , 










5 oo 


Joseph C. Bowker . 










5 oo 


Emery Close . 










5 oo 


Ansel B. Pierce 










5 oo 


George Woodward . 










5 oo 


John Hurley . 










5 oo 


Edward Moore 










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Thomas Cowhey 










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Thomas Freeman . 










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Solomon L. Howes 










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Paschal E. Burnham 










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John P. Buttrick . 










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E. B. Southwick 










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Henry Robinson 










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Charles F. Upham . 










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Jasper F, Ferdinand 










5 oo 


John Gateley 










5 oo 


Ai Rowe 










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Walter Murphy 










5 oo 


Henry J. Robinson 










5 oo 


Daniel Conway 










5 oo 


Joel Snow 










5 oo 


Carlon Buffum 










5 oo 


Osmore Jenkins 










5 oo 



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92 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

Robert Wheeler ..... 

William A. Lamson .... 

Aaron Green ...... 

Oliver T. Went worth .... 

Reuben T. Haley ..... 

Nathaniel Howard ..... 

Samuel D. Blanchard .... 



Total $5,650 00 

With the above amount, so liberally contributed" by our 
citizens, the Recruitin<; Committee were enabled to obtain 
all the men required to fill our several quotas, by adding 
to the amount paid to each recruit by the Town, — one 
hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125), — whatever sum 
was necessary ; the average cost of a recruit at this time, 
in addition to the State and United States bounty,' being 
about two hundred and fifty dollars ($250). 

Very few of our own citizens enlisted during the last 
year of the war, although quite a number that were already 
in the service re-enlisted ; such re-enlistments counting on 
our quotas the same as new enlistments. 

The names of most of the recruits obtained by the 
Committee, at various times and at various places, during 
the last year of the rebellion, may be found in the alpha- 
betical list at the end of the volume. 



' Massachusetts paid no bounty until 1S63 ; then $50 ; Oct. 17, 1863, it 
was increased to $325. The United States paid $100 bounty until Oct. 17, 
1S63 ; then $300 to new recruits, and $400 to veterans until July 18, 1864 ; 
afterwards $100, $200 and ^300 to one, two and three years' volunteers. 



VIII. 

i864- 

One Hundred Days' Men. 

" All hail the Stars and Stripes ! " ^ the cry 
From forest home to ocean shore, 
Ten thousand times ten thousand hands 
Are raised to free that flag once more. 
To each proud heart new hope is sent, 

To each strong arm new strength is given ; 
And, raised aloft from every home, 

The Stars and Stripes float nearer heaven. 

George T. Brown. 



In July, 1864, the Secretary of War made a requisition 
upon Massachusetts for five militia regiments, to serve 
for the period of one hundred days, during the time the 
re-enlisting troops were having their furloughs ; and, as 
usual, the Old Bay State responded with alacrity, and 
the regiments were recruited and equipped with all possi- 
ble despatch. 

These one hundred days' men were not to be credited 
to the quota of Massachusetts, but it was conceded that 
whoever should serve for this length of time should not be 
liable to the draft then pending. Five thousand four hun- 



> The last words of Luther C. Ladd, of the Sixth Regiment, who was 
killed while marching through Baltimore, April 19, 1861. 



94 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

dred and sixty-one (5,461) men went forth from the State 
under this call. 

As heretofore, under the various demands made, Mel- 
rose responded with its proportion of men, and sent a 
few into four of the five regiments then raised, viz : The 
Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Sixtieth ; and their names are as 
follows : 

FIFTH REGIME NT. 1 
Co. K. 

PRIVATE. 

GROVER, W. W. 

Mustered out with the regiment, Nov. 16, 1864. 

SIXTH REGIMENT.2 
Co. A. 

LIEUTENANT. 

CHIPMAN, GEORGE A.3 
Mustered out with the regiment, Oct. 27, 1864 

PRIVATES. 

BURNHAM, OLIVER R. 
Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864. 



* The Fifth Regiment was mustered into the service July 28, 1864, and 
was stationed at Fort Marshall, near Baltimore, Md. 

^ The Sixth Regiment was mustered into the service July 20, 1864, and 
was stationed at Arlington Heights, Va., and at Fort Delaware, Md., a depot 
for Confederate prisoners. 

•* Also served nine months in Forty-Fifth Regiment in 1862-3 J see chap. V. 



EIGHTH KEGIMENT. 95 

Mclaughlin, hiram. 

Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864. 

WAI'lT, JOHN R. 
Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864. 

WYMAN, GEORGE W. 
Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864. 

WYMAN, WESTON. 
Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864. 

Co. E. 

PRIVATES. 

PAGE, MOSES S.i 
Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864. 

SPAULDING, HENRY H. 

Mustered out Oct. 27, 1864. 

EIGHTH REGIMENT.^ 

SERGEANT-MAJOR. 

TYLER, WILLIAM N? 
Sergeant of Co. E at first ; promoted Sergeant-Major July 



3 Acted as Postmaster of the regiment while at Arlington Heights, and 
Assistant Postmaster and Inspector of Rebel correspondence at Fort Dela- 



ware 



^ The Eighth Regiment, - like the Fifth and Sixth, as staled on previous 
pages -was one of the three months' regin.ents that responded so quickly 
when'the first call for troops was made in April, 1861. and marched to 
Washington by the way of Annapolis, Md.. overcoming many obstacles. 
The Eighth was now mustered into service July 26, 1864. and was stationed 
at Baltimore and Cockeysville, Md. . 

^ Also served three months in the Fifth Regiment in 1861, and nine 
months in the Fiftieth Regiment, in 1862-3, but on the South Reading quota. 

*The National Intelligencer said of it, the day after its arrival in Washington, " We 
doubt whether any other single regin,ent in the country could furnish such a ready confn- 
gent to reconstruct a steam engine, lay a rail-track, and bend the sa.ls of a man-of-war. 



9^ THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

19, 1864; mustered out with the regiment, Nov. 10, 
1864. 

Co. E. 

CORPORAL. 

SHELTON, ^THOMAS.i 

Mustered out Nov. 10, 1864. 

PRIVATES. 

ANDERSON, JOHN H. L. 

Mustered out Nov. 10, 1864. 

LYALL, DAVID S. 
Mustered out Nov. 10, 1864. 

QUINN, PATRICK. 

Mustered out Nov. 10, 1864. 

PRATT, HENRY W. 

Mustered out Nov. 10, 1864. 

SIMONDS, JOSEPH W.2 
Mustered out Nov. 10, 1864. 

VINTON, EDWIN A.3 
Mustered out Nov. 10, 1864. 

VINTON, GRAY. 
Mustered out Nov. 10, 1864. 



' Also served nine months in Fiftieth Regiment, in 1862-3, see chap. V. 

* Also served nine months in Forty-Fourth Regiment, in 1862-3, see 
chap. V. 

^ Also served nine months in Forty-Second Regiment, in 1862-3, see 
chap. V. 



NINETY days' MEN. 97 

SIXTIETH REGIMENT.i 
Co. G. 

PRIVATES, 

PILLING, JAMES L. 
Mustered out Nov. 30, 1864. 

UPHAM, HENRY W. 
Mustered out Nov. 30, 1864. 

Ninety Days' Men. 

Massachusetts also sent into the field this same year, — 
1864, — thirteen unattached companies of infantry, com- 
prising twelve hundred and forty-seven (1,247) nien, to 
serve for a period of ninety days ; and in the Seventh 
Unattached Company,^ Captain Albert E. Proctor, Mel- 
rose had seven (7) men, as follows : 

LIEUTENANT. 

NICHOLS, GEORGE G. 
Commissioned ist Lieutenant May 6, 1864; mustered 
out with the regiment, Aug. 4, 1864."' 

CORPORAL. 

LYNDE, AMOS W."* 
Mustered out Aug. 4, 1864. 



' The Sixtieth Massachusetts Regiment was mustered in Aug. i, 1864, 
and was stationed at Indianapolis, Ind. 

' The Seventh Unattached Company was mustered into service May 4, 
1864, and was stationed at Gallop's Island, Boston Harbor. 

^ Also served nine months in Forty-Second Regiment, but on Boston's 
quota. Re-commissioned in Fourth Heavy Artillery, see chap. VI. 

* Also served nine months in the Forty-Second Regiment, in 1862-3, see 
chap. V. 



98 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

WAGONER. 

YORK, JOSIAH R.i 

Mustered out Aug. 4, 1864. 

PRIVATES. 

DAVIS, JAMES L.J 
Mustered out Aug. 4, 1864. 

EMERSON, JAMES G.^ 
Mustered out Aug. 4, 1864. 

EMERSON, JOSEPH S. 
Mustered out Aug. 4, 1864. 

YORK, WILLIAM B.^ 
Mustered out Aug. 4, 1864. 

One Year's Men. 

Melrose had one man in the regiment, — the Sixty-First, 
— which was also organized during this same year, — 
1864, — to serve for a period of one year. It was mus- 
tered into the service in October, and took part in the 
various engagements before Petersburg. 

Co. F. 
private. 
PEMBERTON, LEWIS E. 
Mustered out Aug. 3, 1865. 



' Also served nine months in the Forty-Second Regiment, in 1862-3, see 
chap. V. 



IX. 

i86i-5- 



Navy. 



And is the old flag flying still, 

That o'er your fathers flew, 
With bands of white and rosy light, 

And field of starry blue ? 
Ay ! look aloft ! its folds full oft 

Have braved the roaring blast. 
And still shall fly when from the sky 

This black tyj^hoon has past ! 

Oliver Wendell Holmes. 



Melrose was well represented in the naval service dur- 
ing the great Rebellion. From the breaking out of the war 
until April 13, 1865, Massachusetts furnished for the naval 
and marine service twenty-six thousand three hundred and 
ten (26,310) men. July 4, 1864, Congress passed an act 
allowing all men in the naval service to be credited on 
their proper quotas. Those whose place of residence 
could be ascertained were assigned to their several cities 
and towns. It was found that there were seven thousand 
six hundred and five (7,605) men whose places of resi- 
dence could not be ascertained ; and these, in September, 
1864, were credited /;-<? rata to the different towns and 
cities of the Commonwealth. The number apportioned 
to Melrose was twenty-eight (28), and their names are as 



lOO THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

follows. The name of the vessels on which a portion of 
them served, or their location, is given in the alphabetical 
list at the end of the volume. 

Bosson, Samuel, Ward, Reuben D., 

Kingdom, John, Waters, Henry, 

Kohler, Charles, Watts, Simon C, 

Ludirzen, George S., Weeks, Seymour, 

Lombard, Charles E., Weldon, George E., 

Lee, George E., Wharton, Joseph, 

Lamb, John R., Wilbur, William H., 

Lange, Andrew, Wilkins, Charles B., 

Lafiferty, James, Wilkinson, Robert, 

Launzen, Christian, Williams, Charles ]., 

Lane, John, Williams, George, 

Lalley, Thomas J., Williams, Walter, 

Lewis, Thomas, Wilson, Thomas E., 

Lemont, Henry, Woodman, Robert. 

Those of our own citizens that served in the navy, at 
different times and for different periods, are as follows : 

BODWELL, DANIEL A.i 

Enlisted in Marine Corps, U. S. Navy, Aug. 24, 1863 ; 
served on gunboats " Augusta " and " Chicopee " ; was 
in Farragut's victory in Mobile Bay, Aug. 5, 1864; 
discharged Aug. 24, 1 867. 

DYER, N. MAYO .2 

Appointed Acting Master's Mate, May 2, 1862, and 
ordered to the Charlestown Navy Yard for instruction in 



' Served a year in the Twenty- Second Massachusetts Regiment, see 
chap. in. 

* Served a year in the Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment, see chap. II. 



N. MAYO dyer's SERVICE. lOl 

gunnery, etc. July 7, ordered to the U. S. S. " R. R. 
Cuyler," Lieutenant Commanding Francis Winslow, and 
on the 29th July sailed for the East Gulf Squadron, touch- 
ing at Nassau, where the Confederate steamer "Florida" 
— then called the " Oreto " — was lying, and under Eng- 
lish colors. Cruised off that port for several days, until 
compelled to visit Key West for coal, and repairs to 
machinery. Sailed from Key West Aug. 21, for Nassau. 
" Oreto " had left that port, and on the 4th of September 
she entered Mobile Bay. Yellow fever broke out on 
board, and the surgeon, executive and commanding offi- 
cers being sick, Aug. 26th the " Cuyler " started for New 
York. Aug. 27th, Dyer was placed in charge of the prize 
schooner " Anna Sophia," captured that day, and ordered 
to New York, where he arrived Sept. ist. Rejoined the 
" R. R. Cuyler" at Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 10, Captain 
Winslow and Lieutenant Phillips having died during his 
absence. 

Oct. 7, the " Cuyler " sailed from Portsmouth, — Lieu- 
tenant Commander Homer C. Blake in command, — for 
the West Gulf Squadron, via Key West, arriving at Pen- 
sacola, Fla., Oct. 20, joining the blockading fleet off 
Mobile the 27th. On the escape of the " Oreto " from 
Mobile in January, 1863, the "Cuyler" started in chase, 
and cruised about the West Lidies for two months in 
search of her, returning off Mobile the middle of March. 

On the night of May 17, in charge of a boat's crew, 
Dyer boarded and captured the rebel schooner " Isabel " 
ashore under Fort Morgan, setting fire to her and bring- 
ing off her crew and papers.^ May 20, 1863, he was pro- 
moted, by Admiral Farragut, to Acting Ensign, subject 

' For Lieutenant Dyer's own account of this daring exploit, see chap. XVI. 



102 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

to the approval of the Navy Department. May 30, 
ordered to the command of the steamer " Eugenie," and 
remained on blockade duty, with occasional trips to New 
Orleans, until the latter part of November ; Sept. 12, cap- 
turing the blockade runner " Alabama," and being under 
fire of Forts Morgan and Gaines several times, — receiv- 
ing a shell from Fort Morgan through the pilot house on 
one occasion, slightly wounding him in the hand. 

During the winter of 1863-4 he was on duty in the 
Mississippi River, excepting one expedition to the Mer- 
mantau River, — coast of Louisiana, — resulting in the 
capture of a schooner and sloop, and their destruction, 
bringing off nine prisoners and valuable papers ; for which 
he was promoted, in July, to Acting Master by the Navy 
Department, to date from Jan. 12, 1864. His health being 
poor at this time, he obtained permission to return North 
for two months ; but on arriving at New Orleans, and 
learning that the attack on the defences of Mobile Bay 
would probably take place before the expiration of his fur- 
lough, he returned off Mobile and applied for orders to 
some vessel assigned for the attack. 

July 19, he was ordered to the steamer " Metacomet," 
Lieutenant Commander James E. Jouett, which vessel on 
the 5th of August was the consort of the flag-ship " Hart- 
ford," — Rear Admiral Farragut, — leading the line past 
the rebel works into Mobile Bay, and to the attack of the 
rebel fleet inside. The rebel steamer " Selma " struck to 
the " Metacomet," and Dyer was placed in charge pro 
tempore} August 26, the rebel defences of the bay hav- 
ing all surrendered, he accepted leave and returned North. 
Rejoined the squadron Oct. 29, when he was ordered to 

' For Lieutenant Dyer's account of this fight, see chap. XVI. 



N. MAYO dyer's SERVICE. IO3 

the flag-ship " Hartford." Nov. 30, he was ordered to the 
command of U. S. S. " Rodolph," and to duty in Missis- 
sippi Sound, co-operating with the land forces under 
General Granger. The " Rodolph " was destroyed by a 
torpedo in Blakely River, in the approach upon Mobile, 
April I, 1865,^ from which time until May 10 he was 
engaged upon special duty connected with the clearing of 
torpedoes from Mobile Bay and Channel. 

April 22, 1865, he was promoted Acting Volunteer 
Lieutenant. May 10, upon the surrender of the rebel 
fleet to the forces under Rear Admiral Thacher, he was 
given command of the late rebel steamer " Morgan." In 
June, detached and placed in command of the " Elk," and 
July 12, placed in command of the U. S. S. " Stockdale," 
and ordered to Mississippi Sound. The " Stockdale " 
being sold, Sept. 4, he was ordered to the U. S. S. 
"Moharka"as Executive Officer. Oct. 8, detached and 
placed in command of the U. S. S. " Glasgow," temporary 
flag-ship of Rear Admiral Thacher. 

In April, 1866, received permission to return North, 
and May 19, was ordered to special duty in the Bureau of 
Navigation, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. 



* " On this day, April i, 1865, another vessel was sunk by a torpedo. At 
I, P. M., the tin-clad steamer ' Rodolph,' Acting Master N. M. Dyer, in 
obedience to signal from flagship, weighed anchor, passed within hail, and, 
receiving orders to take a barge alongside containing apparatus for raising 
the ' Milwaukie,' proceeded with it inside the Blakely bar. The ' Rodolph ' 
crossed the bar, and was standing up toward the wreck of the ' Milwaukie,' 
when, at 2.40, P. M., being directly between the ' Chickasaw' and ' Winne- 
bago,' she exploded a torpedo under her starboard bow, and rapidly sank in 
twelve feet of water. It appeared that a hole had been made in her ten feet 
in diameter. By this casualty four of her crew were killed and seven 
wounded, of whom five were colored men " — History of the Campaign of 
Mob tie y by Brevet ATaJor- General C. C. Andrews. 



104 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

March 12, 1868, he was commissioned a Lieutenant in 
the regular service, and is now on duty in the Pacific 
Squadron. 

EARL, WILLIAM H.i 

Transferred from the Thirty-Ninth Massachusetts Regi- 
ment, April 21, 1864; served on gunboat "Mendota" ; 
discharged June 12, 1865. 

FULLER, WILLIAM A. 

Appointed Acting Third Assistant Engineer, March 23, 
1864; assigned to gunboat "Fort Donelson " ; dis- 
charged Dec. 18, 1865. 

HAMMOND, GEORGE. 

Transferred from the Third Heavy Artillery, June 29, 
1864 ; served on gunboat "Juniata" ; was in the attacks 
on " Fort Fisher," Dec. 24-25, 1864, and Jan. 13, 14, 
15, 1865 ; afterwards in North and South Atlantic Block- 
ading Squadrons ; discharged 1865. 

HARVEY, FRANKLIN. 

Enlisted Dec. 19, 1861 ; served two years on gunboat 
" Miami " ; was in the attack on Forts " St. Philip " and 
"Jackson," April 15-23, 1862, under Admiral P'arragut ; 
discharged Dec. 21, 1863, 

MACEY, JOHN S.2 

Enlisted Nov. 15, 1863; served one year on gunboat 
"Phillippi"; discharged Dec. i, 1864. 



' Served on U. S. frigate " Sabine " six months, in 1861-2. 
* Served previously in the Seventeenth Regiment Massachusetts Volun- 
teers, see chap. IIL 



OUR MEN IN THE NAVY. IO5 

MARTIN, JEREMIAH, JR. 

Appointed Paymaster's Clerk, on U. S. S. " Tritonia," 
Dec. 19, 1864 ; transferred to U. S. ship "J. C. Kuhn," 

July 3, 1865 ; discharged Sept. 14, 1865. 

McLaughlin, frank m. . 

Enlisted March 27, 1865 ; served three years and a half 
on gunboats " Kearsarge," " Mohican," and " Mohongo," 
as Ship's Yeoman ; discharged Aug. 29, 1 868. 

MITCHELL, GEORGE. 

Enlisted Feb. 15, 1862 ; served three years on gunboats 
" Tioga," " Sonoma," and " Britannia " ; was in attack 
on "Fort Fisher," Dec. 24-25, 1864; discharged Feb. 
15, 1865. 

NICHOLS, SMITH W., JR.i 

At the opening of the Rebellion, assigned as Midshipman 
to the U. S. frigate " Wabash " ; at home on leave of 
absence, on account of sickness, two or three months 
during the summer of 1861 ; after which appointed 
Assistant Instructor on the U. S. Receiving Ship 
''Ohio" ; Aug. i, 1862, appointed Lieutenant by Presi- 
dent Lincoln; commissioned Feb. 21, 1863 ; appointed 
Executive Officer of U. S. Sloop " Macedonian " in 
latter part of 1862; transferred to Schoolship "Sa- 
vannah," at New York, in spring of 1863, where he 
remained until ordered to the U. S. Steam-sloop " Shen- 



• Appointed Acting Midshipman in the United States navy, Sept. 27, 1858, 
on the recommendation of Hon. D. W. Gooch. Entered the Naval Acade- 
my at Annapolis, Md. In the monthly report for December, i860, he is 
spoken of by the Superintendent, G. S. Blake, as a " correct and promising 
young gentleman." 
14 



106 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL, 

andoah " ; was Executive Officer of the " Shenandoah " 
during the attacks on "Fort Fisher," Dec. 24-25, 1864, 
and Jan. 13, 14, 15, 1865.^ After the fall of "Fort 



' Captain Daniel B. Ridgely, commanding the " Shenandoah " during 
these attaclvs on " Fort Fisher," thus mentions Lieutenant Nichols in his 
reports. Under date "Off Beaufort, N. C, December 31, 1S64," referring 
to the first attack, he says : 

" It affords me much gratification to speak of the cool bearing of Lieutenant S. W. Nich- 
ols, the Executive Officer, and other officers, and the crew of this ship, during the two days' 
bombardment." 

After the second attack, under date "Off Fort Fisher, January 17, 1865," 
in his detailed report he says : 

* * * " At 9.48,fA. M., sent the first and second launches and first cutter with the storming 
party, conb.istirg of fifty-four men and fourteen marines, under command of Lieutenant S. W. 
Nichols, the Executive Officer, Ensign Sands, and Bo.Ttswain J. H. Polley. * * * I enclose 
Lieutenant Nichols' report of the storming party from this ship, which will speak for itself. I 
take great pleasure in bearing testimony to the cool bearing of Lieutenant Nichols, the Exec- 
utive Officer, and the other officers and crew of this ship during the bombardment. 
I am, very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

Daniel B. Ridgely, Captain" 
Rear-Admiral David D. Pokter, 
Commanding North Atlantic Squadron. 

The following is the report of Lieutenant Nichols referred to by Captain 
Ridgely : 

United States Steamer Shenandoah, ) 
Off Nhw Inlet, N.C, Jan. 17, 1865. ) 

Sir : — I have the honor to report, that on leaving this ship on the morning of the 15th 
instant, in charge of assaulting party of this ship, consisting of fifty-four men and a sergeant's 
guard of marines, with Ensign J. H. Sands and Boatswain J. H. Polley, I passed within 
hail of the " Malvern," and was there ordered to Lieutenant Commander Breese, on shore. 
Arrived on shore, leaving two men as boat-keepers in each of the three boats, reported to 
Lieutenant Commander Breese, and was by him placed in the third division, under command 
of Lieutenant Commander Selfridge. The marines were ordered elsewhere. On the charge 
our men were orderly ; kept together ; did not drop, except when ordered to do so, and 
when the stockade in front of the fort was reached, were among the foremost, and were 
among the last to fall back. Robert Esler, second-class fireman, remained with me and 
other officers and men behind the stockade until dark, when we all succeeded in getting 
away. 

I found that marines, Charles Smith, Adolph Burton, Wilmer D. Lyne, James Whyte, 
Thomas S. Brown, all of this ship, had remained near Fort Fisher until dark, not having 
fallen back with their own line. On arriving down the beach, I found that Ensign Sands 
and Boatswain I'olley had rallied all the men of this ship duricg the retreat, had found all 



OUR MEN IN THE NAVY. IO7 

Fisher," ordered in the iron-clad " Passaic " to Philadel- 
phia ; at close of war ordered home, waiting orders. 
The latter part of 1865, again ordered to the U. S. 
Steamer " Shenandoah," one of the fleet belonging to 
the Asiatic Squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral H. 
H. Bell, where he now is. Promoted Lieutenant Com- 
mander, July 25, 1866. 

PERKINS, JAMES F. 

Appointed Acting Ensign Nov. 14, 1862 ; assigned to U. 
S. S. " Tritonia," " Barrataria," " Horace Beals," and 
" Portsmouth " ; was in Farragut's victory at Forts " St. 
Philip " and " Jackson," and " Siege of Vicksburg " ; 
discharged Sept. 20, 1865.V 

' For form of discharge papers, see Appendix I. 



the wounded of our own men, seven in number, and had sent them on board and rendered 
good service to oiher wounded men of the assaulting party. Our men here mamtained the 
sailor discipline^ obeying their officers cheerfully, ready and willing to do whatever was 
required of them. None left the shore except those ordered to take off the wounded. En- 
sign Sands and Boatswain PoUey deserve the highest praise for the zeal and energy shown 
throughout. At night the sailors and marines relieved the garrison at army headquarters. 
On being relieved in the morning, was ordered up the beach to bury the dead. Arriving 
there and finding the burial party of sufScient force, returned to the boats, thence to the ship. 
I am happy to state that none of our men were killed, and that the color-bearers, two in 
number, returned each with his flag. 

In conclusion, sir, I would beg leave to state that all of our men behaved in such a gallant 
manner that I would consider it invidious to make any distinction. Each and all deserve the 
highest commendation for their coolness and courage under the most trying circumstances, 
and fully sustained the hard-earned reputation of the American sailor. 
I I am, nir, very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

Smith W. Nichols, Jr. 

Lieutenant U. S. Navy. 
Captain D. B. Ridgely, 
Commanding " Shenandoah." 

Forwarded. 

Daniel B. Ridgely, 

Captain U. S. N. 



I 



108 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

SMALL, EDWARD A. 

Appointed Acting Ensign June 16, 1862; ordered to 
U. S. S. " Cambridge " ,in North Atlantic Squadron ; 
detached Oct. 17, 1864, and ordered to Frigate "Wa- 
bash " ; was in the attacks on " Fort Fisher," Dec. 
24, 25, 1864, and Jan. 13-15, 1865 ; promoted Acting 
Master Feb. 22, 1865 ; ordered on special duty until 
May 15, 1865, and then to the ship "New Hampshire," 
in the South Atlantic Squadron ; discharged Oct. 14, 
1865. 



" The good ship Union's voyage is o'er, 

At anchor safe she swings. 
And loud and clear, with cheer on cheer 

Her joyous welcome rings : 
Hurrah ! Hurrah ! it shakes the wave. 

It thunders on the shore, — 
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, 

One Nation, evermore ! " 



X 

i863. 

The Draft. 

Strike for that broad and goodly land, 

Blow after blow, till men shall see 
That Might and Right move hand in hand. 

And glorious must their triumph be. 

William Cullen Bryant. 



The Act of Congress for " enrolling and calling out the 
national forces, and for other purposes," was approved 
March 3, 1863. The main objects of this law were to 
enroll and hold liable to military duty all citizens capable 
of bearing arms not exempted therefrom by its provisions, 
to call forth the national forces when required, and to 
arrest deserters and return them to their proper com- 
mands. 

The original act required the enrollment to be com- 
posed of two classes : the first comprising all persons 
subject to do military duty between the ages of twenty 
and thirty-five years, and all unmarried persons subject to 
military duty above the age of thirty-five and under the 
age of forty-five ; the second, comprising all other persons 
subject to military duty, that is, all married persons be- 
tween thirty-five and forty-five years of age, who fulfilled 
the required conditions. The law provided that the sec- 
ond class should not be called out in any district until the 



no THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

first class was exhausted. This distinction of classes was 
abolished Feb. 24, 1864, and all persons liable to military- 
duty consolidated into one and the same class. 

Under this law, and by direction of Provost-Marshal 
General James B. Fry, four drafts were made throughout 
the loyal States during the Rebellion, The first com- 
menced about the ist of July, 1863, and was for one-fifth 
of the persons enrolled in the first class. The second 
commenced about the 15 th of April, 1864, and was for 
deficiencies under calls for seven hundred thousand {700,- 
000) volunteers. The third commenced about the 19th of 
September, 1864, for deficiencies under call of July 18, 
1864, for five hundred thousand (500,000) volunteers. The 
fourth commenced about the 20th of February, 1865, for 
deficiencies under call of Dec. 19, 1864, for three hundred 
thousand (300,000) volunteers. 

The whole number of persons drawn, in the United 
States, during the first draft, was . . 292,441 

Failed to report ..... 39,415 
Discharged for various causes . . 460 



9.875 



252,566 
Whole number exempted . . 164,395 



88,171 
Held to personal service . . . 9,881 

Furnished substitutes .... 26,002 

Paid commutation 52,288 

8.8,171 



THE FIRST DRAFT. 1 1 1 

The whole number of persons drawn in Massachusetts 
during- this draft was .... 32,077 

Failed to report 2,880 

Dischar2:ed for various causes . . 6 



Whole number exempted 

Held to personal service 
Furnished substitutes 
Paid commutation . 



The whole number of persons drawn in this District, — 
the Sixth, — during this draft was . . . 2,712 

Failed to report ...... 167 

2,545 
Total number exempted .... 2,148 





li,OOU 




29,191 




22,359 


807 


^6,832 


2,322 




3703 


6,832 



Held to personal service . . . 52 

Furnished substitutes . . . . 102 

Paid commutation ..... 243 



397 



397 



Captain H. G. Herrick, of Saugus, was appointed Pro- 
vost-Marshal for this District, and his headquarters were 
at Lawrence ; and on the days of drafting, busy and inter- 
esting scenes were presented at his office, there being a 
great desire manifested during the progress of the draft, 
to witness the operation, and to ascertain who were the 
unlucky ones whose names should be taken from the 
wheel of, — not fortune, but, to them, of wzVfortune. The 
drafting in this District commenced July 9th, and Melrose, 



112 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

— Sub-District No. 9, — was reached July 13th. Forty- 
nine (49) names were drawn from the wheel * The provi- 
sions of the act were such that any person drafted, if found 
acceptable, could be exempted from service by furnishing 
a substitute, or paying three hundred dollars ($300) com- 
mutation. 

The following is a list of the drafted persons, giving 
those who furnished substitutes, those who paid commu- 
tation, those who failed to report, and those who were 
exempted for various causes. No one was drafted and 
accepted from our town who served in person. 
Furnished substitutes : 

Jonathan C. Howes, 

Henry W. Barrett, 

George W. Emerson. 
Paid commutation : ~ 

William F. Gordon, 

Joseph A. Fairbanks, 

Osgood W. Upham,^ 

Charles Robbins. 

Exempted because only son of a widow, liable to mili- 
tary duty : 

Nathaniel J. Bartlett, 
William Donalavy."* 



' The whole number in enrolled men of Melrose liable to do military 
duty, as returned by the assessors in May of each year of the war, was as 
follows: In i86i, 366; 1862, 440; 1863, 368; 1864, 359; 1865, 365. 

* The amount of commutation money paid at this time, in Massachusetts, 
was $1,110,900 by 3,703 men; and d iring the war, $1,610,400 by 5,318 
m^n. The amount paid during the war, throughout the loyal .States, was 
$26,366,316.78, paid by 87,874 men. 

^ For form of certificate of exemption, see Appendix E. 

* Afterwards entered the marine service for five years, but not on the 
quota of Melrose. 



OUR DRAFTED MEN. 1 I3 

Exempted because had two brothers then in United 
States' service : 

Richard H. Shelton, 
Stephen W. Shelton. 

Exempted because over thirty-five, and married : 
Wilham H. Stone. 

Exempted because not naturahzed : 
James Astle. 

Exempted for disability : 
Charles E. Keith, 
Joseph Goodwin, 
Curtis S. Gordon, 
Daniel L. Chase, 
Frederick W. A. Rankin, Jr., 
William Cook, 
Jonathan Barrett, 
James W. Dodge, 
Elbridge H. Goss, 
Lucius L. D. Porter, 
William F. Morse, 
Charles A. Waite, 
Moses S. Page, 
Lewis H. Richardson, 
Albert F. Shelton.i 
Anarew P. Trott, 
Oren Brown, 
Leander T. Freeman, 
Theodore L. Knowles, 
Walter Babb, 



* Was discharged Dec. 23, 1862, from the Thirteenth Regiment on 
account of wound received at " Battle of Antietam," Sept. 17, 1862. 

15 



1 



114 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Charles H. Blaisdell, 
Edmund W. Davis/ 
John H. B. Henderson, 
William A. Fuller, 
Oren H. Peck, 
William Morse, 
Joseph S. Emerson, 
John L. Allen, 
John Thompson,^ 
Joshua Emery, Jr., 
John H. Crocker,^ 
Bradford Edmands. 

Failed to report : 

Augustus L. Cheever,^ 
George W. Grover, Jr., 
Edward Finnegan, 
George Hammond.^ 



I 



Whole number drawn .... 




Furnished substitutes 


3 


Paid commutation ..... 


4 


Failed to report 


4 


Exempted for disability .... 


32 


Exempted for other causes .... 


6 



49 



49 



* Was discharged Oct. 20, 1862, from the Twenty-Second Regiment on 
account of disability. 

* Afterwards entered the navy, but not on quota of Melrose. 

^ Was discharged Dec. 30, 1862, from the Thirteenth Regiment on account 
of disability. 

"^ Enlisted in Third Heavy Artillery, July 15, 1863, two days after the draft. 

* Enlisted in Third Heavy Artillery, July 25, 1S63, twelve days after the 
draft. 



OUR DRAFT CELEBRATION. 1^5 

There were three Shelton famiHcs in our town at the 
time of the draft, in one of which were five brottiers ; 
three of these brothers were drafted, one of whom had 
been in the service. The other two brothers were then in 
the service. 

The Boston Journal of July 14th,— the next day after 
the draft, — contained the following item : 

MELROSE. 
Celebrating the Draft. 

The drafted men of this quiet village had a jolly time of it 
last evening. A party of them arrayed in fantastic uniforms, 
and with strange weapons, with an American flag, a drum, 
horns, tin pans, and other musical instruments, made a tour of 
the town, calling on all their fortunate compatriots, and some- 
what in this way : The procession halts in front of a residence 
where the lights are low, and a passer-by would know that some- 
body there had been drafted. The commander shouts in a 
stentorian voice, "Conscript So-and-so, you're wanted! Ten 
days is played out ; five minutes is the word. Conscript, come 
forth ! " 

A provost guard forthwith wait upon the honored personage, 
and he is placed, with cheers and congratulations, in the pro- 
cession, which, amid the clamor of unheard of music, moves on 
to the residence of the next fortunate man. There was no es- 
caping this conscription. Every man had to take his place, and 
everybody seemed to enjoy the fun. At a late hour the melan- 
choly horns were moaning in the suburbs ; and there was a gen- 
eral impression with the cidzens, as they retired to rest, that it 
was rather a jolly thing, than otherwise, to be drafted. - 

1864. 
Calls for five hundred thousand (500,000) men were 



ii6 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



made Oct. 17, 1863, and Feb. i, 1864, and our quota 
assigned by Provost-Marshal Herrick.i 

The second draft was made, under the call of March 
14th, 1864, and resulted as follows : 

The whole number of persons drawn throughout the 



United States, during this draft, was 

Failed to report 27,193 

Discharged for various causes . . 1,296 



Whole number exempted 

Held to personal service . . . 3>4i6 

Furnished substitutes .... 8,911 

Paid commutation ..... 32,678 



113,446 



28,489 

84,957 
39.952 

45.005 



45,005 



' Provost-Marshal's Office, \ 
6th DisTRicr, Mass., v 

Lawrence, Feb. 16, 1864. ) 

Co/. J. H. Clark, Melrose, Mass. : 

Dear Sir : — The quota of Melrose, exclusive of any deductions, under the 
" call for 500,000 men, and to make up deficiencies," is 50. 

From this is to be deducted the number of men enlisted and mustered, not 
heretofore credited, and also 4 men drafted and commuted for, and 3 fur- 
nished substitutes. 

You will be credited for all men who shall have enlisted from your town, 
and who shall have been duly mustered, up to and including Feb. 29. 

Very respectfully. 

Your obedient servant, 

H. G. Herrick, 
Capt. and Pro. -Mm: 6th Dist. Mass. 



THE SECOND DRAFT. WJ 

The whole number of persons drawn in Massachusetts 
during this draft was .... 9>505 

Failed to report ' . . . . . 2,287 
Discharged for various causes . . 44 

2,331 



7,174 
Whole number exempted . . 4,711 



Held to personal service . . . 105 

Furnished substitutes .... 743 

Paid commutation . . . . 1,615 



2,463 



^,463 



The whole number of persons drawn in this District,^ 

during this draft, was ..... 350 

Whole number exempted ... 273 



Held to personal service .... 2 

Furnished substitutes . . . .19 

Paid commutation . . . . . .56 



77 



77 



The draft in this District commenced on the 14th of 
May, and, on the 17th, the following names were drawn 



' Our quota was as follows : 

Provost-Marshal's Office, ') 

6th Dist. Mass., r" 

Lawrence, March 25, 1864.^ 

Sir: — The Quota of your Town, under the President's call of March 14, 
1864, for 200,000 men, will be as follows : Sub-Dist. No. 9, . . 19 men. 

By order of Board of Enrollment, 6th Dist. Mass., 

S. W. HOPKINSON, 

Com m issiotier. 
Chairman Selectmen of Melrose. 



Il8 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

for Melrose ; but as there was no deficiency at this time, 
all the quotas of our town having been filled, the drafted 
persons were not required to appear for Examination.^ 

Four of the citizens that were drafted in 1 863 were also 
drafted at this time. 

John Thompson, 

William Donalavy, 

Samuel A. Robinson, 

Joseph Goodwin, 

Alonzo Patterson, 

William F. Paul, 

William A. Fuller,2 

George W. Farnsworth, 

William Clark, 

Augustus Ripley, 

Lyell T. Terwillager, 

Jarvis P. Hudson, 

James Biffin, 

John Perkins, Jr., 

Fernando C. Taylor, 

Timothy Upham, 

David A. Alden, 

John H. L. Anderson, 

Gardner Wheeler, 

' Provust-Marshal's Office, ") 
6th District, Mass., ^ 

Lawrence, May 31, 1864. ) 
Col. J. II. Clark, Melrose, Mass. : 

The deficiency of Melrose is full, as appears from a list of Supplemen- 
tary Credits furnished this morning by Major Clarke. The drafted men 
need not appear. You are authorized to so notify them. 

Very respectfully, 

H. G. Herrick. 
Ca/>1. and Pro.- Mar., 6tk Dist. Mass. 
' Was then in the navy, Acting Third Assistant Engineer. 



THIRD AND FOURTH DRAFTS. 1 1 



9 



Sylvanus Magoon, 
Joseph Holbrook, 
Edward B. Newhall, 
Thomas Hawkins, 
Daniel R. Woodward 
On the third and fourth drafts, there were no names 
drawn in Massachusetts, her quotas being more than full. 
The following is the general result of those drafts : 
Whole number of persons drawn under the call of July 

1 8, 1864, was 231,918 

Failed to report . . . . .66,159 
Discharged for various causes . . 27,223 



Whole number of exemptions 





yjo«- 




138,536 




82,531 


26,205 


56,005 


28,502 




1,298 


56,005 



Held to personal service 
Furnished substitutes 
Paid commutation . 



Whole number of persons drawn under the call of Dec. 

19, 1864, was 139,024 

Failed to report ..... 28,477 
Discharged for various causes . . 64,419 



92,896 

46,128 
Whole number exempted . . 28,631 



Held to personal service . . . 6,845 

Furnished substitutes . . . .10,192 
Paid commutation .... 460 



17,497 



17,497 



120 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



SUBSTITUTES 

FOR 

Enrolled Men. 

During the year 1864, an arrangement was made, by 
which any person hable to do mihtary duty could, in 
anticipation of the draft then pending, furnish a substi- 
tute. Four of our citizens availed themselves of this 
privilege, paying for their substitutes sums ranging from 
five hundred and seventy-five to seven hundred dollars.^ 
In this manner men were added to our forces in the field, 
and our quota was reduced to an equal extent. 

The following are the names of those who thus fur- 
nished substitutes, and also the names and reputed resi- 
dence of their respective substitutes : 

Enrolled Men. Substitutes. Residence. 

George Emerson, 2d, Samuel Wilson, Nova Scotia.^ 

William Beamen, " " 

John H, Reynard, Canada. 

Andrew Tyrill, Nova Scotia. 



George W. Heath, 
James O. Lynde, 
Daniel W. Wilcox, 



^ The prices demanded for substitutes during the rebellion differed some- 
what from those paid in former wars, as will be seen by the following 
receipts, — the original of which are now in possession of our townsman, 
Mr. Artemas Barrett. The substitutes in each case were for citizens of 
North Maiden, — now Melrose, — and one of these citizens was the grand- 
father of Mr. Barrett. 

January 13, 1761. 

Received of Phiiiehas Sprague june'r. eight Pounds lawful money it being for my going a 
Solger to forte Cumberland and I had a proraes not of Six Pounds be fore. 

Pr, me John Batts. 

Cambridge, August 17, 1781. 
Rec'd of Mr. Joseph Barrett the sum of Twelve Pounds Solid Coine in full of all accounts 
Debts Dues and Demands against Mr. Joseph Lyonde (Lynde) or Mr. Joseph Barretts. Class 
for Procuring a man for three years service in the Army. Reed by me Benj Perkins. 

* For form of certificates given in such cases, see appendi.x F. 



representative recruits. i 21 

Representative Recruits. 

During the latter part of the year 1864, Massachusetts 
and some of the other loyal States sent recruiting agents 
into the rebellious States, at points occupied by our forces, 
for the purpose of enlisting colored volunteers, under the 
Act of Congress approved July 4th, 1864. 

An arrangement was also made by which any person 
not liable to be drafted into the military service of the 
United States, by reason of age or disability, could de- 
posit with the Treasurer of the State in which such per- 
son resided, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dol- 
lars (^125), and be assigned one of the volunteers thus 
enlisted, such volunteer to be called a " Representative 
Recruit." The recruits thus obtained, and not assigned 
as " Representative Recruits," were apportioned among 
the various towns and cities of the Commonwealth for 
which the enlistments were made. 

The whole number of volunteers secured by these 
agents was two thousand four hundred . and eighteen 
(2,418) ; of which number Massachusetts enlisted twelve 
hundred and fifty-seven (1,257). 

The whole number of " Representative Recruits " as- 
signed to different individuals in all the States was twelve 
hundred ninety-two (1,292), of which number Massachu- 
setts furnished five hundred and fifty-three (553). 

Three citizens of our town availed themselves of this 
privilege of putting into the service a " Representative 
Recruit," receiving from the State a certificate signed by 
the Governor, John A. Andrew, and the Provost-Marshal 
of the State, Joseph M. Day, giving the names of the 
"sable volunteers" thus assii^ned them.i 



' For form of receipt and certificate given, sec appendix G. 
16 



122 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

The names of these three gentlemen were : 
David Fairbanks, 
Daniel Russell, 
Dexter Bryant. 

The names of their representatives were, respectively : 
Samuel Harris, enlisted at Natchez, Mississippi, in the 
Seventy-First United States Colored Infantry ; Davis 
Jones, enlisted at Washington, Louisiana, in the Fifty- 
Eighth United States Colored Infantry ; William Parsons 
enlisted in Tennessee, in the Fiftieth United States Col- 
ored Infantry. 

It was afterwards ascertained that the cost of these 
" Representative Recruits " was only about one hundred 
dollars ($ioo); and by permission of the depositors, the 
balance of the sum deposited, twenty-five dollars {$25), 
was transferred to the hands of Surgeon-General Dale, to 
be appropriated for the benefit of discharged disabled Mas- 
sachusetts soldiers, or their families. An acknowledg- 
ment of the receipt of this sum was given by the Surgeon- 
General to each depositor. In this manner the sum of ten 
thousand six hundred and ninety dollars ($10,690) was 
added to the fund for the relief of sick and disabled 
soldiers. 



XL 

i86i-5- 



Our native land ! to thee, 

In one united vow, 
To keep tliee strong and free, 

And glorious as now — 

We pledge each heart and hand ; 
By the blood our fathers shed. 
By the ashes of our dead, 
By the sacred soil we tread ! 

God for our native land ! 

George W. Bethune. 



The whole number of men furnished by the State of 
Massachusetts during the war, for the service of the 
United States, for the several terms of service, of all arms, 
and including both army and navy, was one hundred and 
fifty-nine thousand, one hundred and sixty-five (159,165). 
The followipg table, from the Report of the Adjutant- 
General for the year 1865, gives the number of men thus 
furnished more in detail : 

Organizations, Terms, etc. Number. Aggregate. 

THREE months' SERVICE, 1861. 

Four (4) Regiments, Infantry, 

One (i) Battalion, Riflemen, 

One (i) Battery, Light Artillery, 3)736 

THREE years' MEN IN THE ARMY. 

Forty (40) Regiments, Infantry, 
Five (5) Regiments, Cavalry, 



124 "^^"^ MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

Three (3) Regiments, Heavy Artillery, 

One (i) Battalion, Heavy Artillery, 

Two (3) Companies, Sharpshooters, 

Sixteen (16) Batteries, Light Artillery, 54}iS7 

Recruits, including drafted men, for above 

organizations, 26,091 

Men for Regular Army, Veteran Reserve 

Corps, and other organizations, 9)79° 

Re-enlistments in the State organizations, 6,202 



Number enlisted from Dec. i, 1864, up to 




and including August, 1865, viz : 




White Volunteers, 


2,*74i 


Colored Volunteers, 


1,308 


Regulars, 


432 


Seamen, 


154 


Marines, 


12 


Veteran Reserve Corps, 


266 



96,270 



ONE year's men in THE ARMY. 

Two (2) Regiments, Infantry, 

Two (2) Unattached Companies, Infantry, 

One (i) Regiment, Heavy Artillery, 

Eight (8) Un. Companies, Heavy Artillery, 

Seven (7) Companies, Cavalry, 4,728 

NINE months' men. 

Seventeen (17) Regiments, Infantry, 16,685 

one hundred days* men. 
Five (5) Regiments, Infantry, 
Nine (9) Un. Companies, Infantry, 5,461 

ninety days' men. 
Thirteen (13) Un. Companies, Infantry, 1,209 

MEN in the navy. 

Number for One Year, 8,074 

Number for Two Years, 3,204 

Number for Three Years, 13,929 

Number, term not given, 956 

26,163 



4,913 
Total, 159.165 



NUMBER OF MEN FURNISHED. I 25 

Of the enlisted men, of whom muster-out rolls have 
been received at the Adjutant-General's office, twelve 
thousand, eight hundred and twenty-six (12,826) were 
killed, or died in service. Three thousand two hundred 
and seventy-eight (3,278) were killed on the battlefield, 
eighteen hundred and twenty-two (1,822) died of wounds, 
fifty-five hundred and ninety-four (5,594) died of disease, 
and twenty-one hundred and thirty-two (2,132) died in 
rebel prisons. 

The whole number of commissioned officers furnished 
by Massachusetts during the war was fifty-eight hundred 
and sixty-nine (5,869), four hundred and thirty-two (432) 
of whom laid down their lives for their country, most of 
them on the field of battle. Two hundred and sixty (260) 
were killed, one hundred and four (104) died of wounds, 
seventy-five (75) died of disease, and three (3) died in rebel 
prisons. The above figures show that two thousand three 
hundred and forty (2,340) more men died of disease and 
in rebel prisons than were killed or died of wounds. 

Of the thirty-five (35) general officers furnished by 
Massachusetts, nine (9) have been killed or fatally wound- 
ed in action, and sixteen (16) who have fallen in battle 
survive their wounds. Only ten (10) have escaped injury. 

The whole number of men furnished by Melrose for the 
war, for the several terms of service, of all arms, including 
both army and navy, and including the eight (8) citizens 
that enlisted on other quotas, was four hundred and fifty- 
four (454). Of these, twenty-one (21) enlisted men lost 
their lives ; five (5) were killed on the battle-field, one (i) 
was accidentally shot, thirteen (13) died of disease con- 
tracted in the service, and two (2) died in rebel prisons. 

The number of commissioned officers furnished by 
Melrose was eighteen (18) ; two (2) of whom lost their 



126 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

lives, one (i) on the field of battle, and one (i) died of dis- 
ease contracted in the service. 

The whole number of men apportioned to Massachu- 
setts, under the several calls for troops during the war, 
was one hundred and seventeen thousand, six hundred 
and twenty-four (117,624). The number furnished, reduc- 
ing all the different times of service to the standard of 
three years, was one hundred thirty-one thousand, one 
hundred and sixteen {131,116) men, which shows a sur- 
plus of thirteen thousand, four hundred ninety-two (13,- 
492.) 

All of the three hundred and thirty-five cities and towns 
in the Commonwealth, with the exception of twelve small 
towns, furnished a surplus of men ; and it is a source of 
great satisfaction to be able to say, that when the rebel- 
lion closed, Melrose, one of the youngest towns in the 
State,^ had a surplus, according to a communication from 



' Melrose was incorporated May 3d, 1850. It was formerly the northern 
part of Maiden, one of the oldest towns in the State, having been set off as 
a town in 1649. Captain Edward Johnson, of Woburn, in his " Wonder- 
working Providence of Sions Saviour in New England," published in Lon- 
don in 1654, -^ and recently re-printed in very fine style, with a learned 
historical Introduction and an Index by our townsman, Mr. William F. 
Poole, — says that Maiden was settled " by certain persons, who issued out 
of Charles Town, and indeed had her whole structure within the bounds of 
this more elder Town, being severed by the broad spreading river of Mistick 
the one from the other, whose troublesome passage caused the people on the 
North side of the river to plead for Town-priviledges within themselves, 
which accordingly was granted them ; the soyl is very fertile, but they are 
much straitened in their bounds, yet their neerness to the chief Market 
Towns, makes it the more comfortable for habitation ; the people gathered 
into a Church some distance of time before they could attain to any Church- 
Officer to administer the Seals unto them, yet in the mean time at their Sab- 
bath assemblies they had a godly Christian named M. Sarjant, who did 
preach the Word unto them, and afterwards they were supplied at times with 



SURPLUS OF MELROSE. I27 

the District Provost-Marshal H. G. Herrick, of seventy- 
four (74) men ' over and above all the different quotas 



' Provost-Marshal's Office, 
6rH DisiRicT, Mass., 



Lawrence, December 31, 1864. ) 
This is to certify that, as appears by the records of this office, the surplus 
of the Town of Melrose, over all calls, is seventy-four (74) men. 

H. G. Herrick, 
Captain and Provost- Marshal, 6t/i Dist. Mass. 



some young Students from the Colledg,* till the year 1650, one Mr. Marma- 
duke Mathews, coming out of Plimouth Patten, + was for some space of time 
with a people at the Town of Hull, which is a small Port-town peopled by 
fishermen, and lies at the entrance of the Bays mouth, where this Mr. 
Mathews continued preaching, till he lost the approbation of some able 
understanding men, among both Magistrates and Ministers, by weak and 
unsafe e.xpressions in his teaching, yet notwithstanding he was called to the 
office of a Pastor by the brethren of this Church of Christ at Maiden, 
although some neighbor-churches were unsatisfied therewith, for it is the 
manner of all the Churches of Christ here hitherto, to have the approbation 
of their Sister-Churches, and the civil Government also in the proceedings 
of this nature, by the which means Communion of Churches is continued, 
peace preserved ; and the truths of Christ sincerely acknowledged." The 
brief record of what may be regarded as the act of incorporation by the 
General Court is as follows : " In answer to the petition of several inhabi- 
tants of Mistick side, their request is granted, viz. to be a distinct town of 
themselves, and the name thereof to be Maulden." The two-hundredth 
anniversary of the settlement of Maiden was celebrated May 23, 1849. An 
oration was delivered by Hon. James D. Green, and a poem by Rev. Gilbert 
Haven, Jr. A year afterward these were j^ublished, together with other his- 
torical matter relating to the town, and the Committee of Publication thus 
refer to Melrose, which was set off from Maiden the same year : " The new 
town of ' fair Melrose,' the only daughter of Maiden, goes forth to set up a 
separate municipal existence, with the parental consent and blessing ; and 
will doubtless reflect lasting credit on her parentage." Its population at 
this time was 1,260; and in i860 it had increased to 2,527. In 1865, the 
year the war closed, our population was 2,865. 

♦Harvard College. 
tPlyinouth Colony. 



128 THE MELROSK Ml MORI AL. 

from the many calls for troops, by the President of the 
United States. 

And, notwithstanding the necessary outlay of money on 
account of this gigantic rebellion, there was no reduction 
in the amounts of money voted for the School, Poor, 
Highway, and other appropriations ; but, on the contrary, 
a steady increase throughout the continuance of the war. 

As has been stated, Melrose furnished during the war 
four hundred and fifty-four (454) men for the different 
periods of service. Three hundred and seventy-seven (377) 
different names appear on the alphabetical list ; of these, 
five (5) were in the three months' service in 1861, all but 
one of whom re-enlisted. Eleven (i i) of those that entered 
the service in 1861 and 1862 for three years re-enlisted, 
and counted twice in filling our quotas. Eight (8) re-en- 
tered the service after recovering from the wounds or 
sickness, on account of which they had been discharged ; 
and in this list is included also the names of the twenty- 
eight (28) men in the navy, credited to us from the State at 
large ; also the names of the substitutes put into the ser- 
vice by enrolled citizens, and the " Representative Re- 
cruits " furnished by our citizens not liable to draft. 

Quotas.' 
The following is a statement of the number- of men 
called for at different times during the rebellion by the 
President of the United States, the total quotas assigned, 
and the number obtained from all the States. Also the 
quotas of Massachusetts, with the number of men fur^ 
nished on each, compiled from the Report of the'Provost- 
Marshal General, James B. Fry. Also the quotas of Mel- 
rose and the number of men furnished, as correctly as it is 
possible to state them. 



QUOTAS. 



129 



Datb of 
Proclamation. 



April i5, 1 861 . 
May & July, i86i 
May & June, 186 
July 2, 1862 . . 
August 4, 1 862 . 
June 15, 186:5 . 
July, 1863, Draft 
"October 17, 1863 
February i, 1864 
March 14, 1864 
April 23, 1864 . 
July 18, 1864 . . 
December 19, 1864 



75.oo< 
S82>74' 

300,00c 
300,00c 
100,00c 

300,000 
200,000 
200,000 
85.000 
500,000 () 
300,000 I, 



3 months. 

3 years. 
3 mouths. 

3 years. 
g months. 
6 months. 

3 years. 

3 years. 

100 days. 

J, 3 years. 

2, 3 years. 



2,942.748' 



o 

H 



73.391 
611,827 

334.835 
334.835 
militia. 



467.434 



113,000 
346.746 
290,000 



93.326 
714,231 

15.007 
43'. 958 

87.588 

16,361 



374,807 




2.759,049 2,690,401 139.095 IS". 785! 



as 



1,560 
34,868 



19,080 
19,080 



26,597 

10,639 
4.000 

21,965 
1,306 



3,736 
32,177 



I .5'9 

16,685 

103 



21.413 

18,876 
6,8og 

3' 739 
3.728 



Citizen in the Navy (not included in above count) 
Allotted by Navy Commissioners 



166 

23 



28 
446 



*Congress passed acts on the 22d, 25th and 31st July, 1S61, authorizing 
the President to accept the services of volunteers, either as cavalry, infantry 
or artillery, in such numbers not exceeding 1,000,000, as he might deem 
necessary for the purpose of repelling invasion and suppressing insurrection. 

t " Of the number of troops mustered into the United States' service for 
a less period than six months (including all three months' men), not here- 
tofore credited on any quota since the commencement of the Rebellion, 
but which would have been proper credit upon any subsequent call, in ac- 
cordance with provisions of section 15th of acts of March 3d, 1865, Massa- 
chusetts furnished 4,983 men for three months, 6,809 for one hundred days, 
and 121 for four months. Total, 11,913 ; equal to 3,157 years of service, or 
1,052 men for three years." 

17 . 



XII. 

i86i-5. 



Relief of Soldiers and their Families. 

In all of the cities and towns of the Commonwealth, 
large contributions of money, clothing, and other articles, 
were being made during the entire period of the war. In 
many, in most of these cities and towns, there was one or 
more organized societies for the disbursement of these 
contributions. Melrose had no such regularly organized 
association, although much was done for the benefit of the 
soldier and his family by the Town and by individuals. 
Of the unnumbered private donations of money, of boxes 
and packages of soldiers' necessities and luxuries, sent by 
patriotic mothers and sisters, who can fully estimate their 
value, or the benefit derived therefrom .'' 

The generous sympathy and munificent gifts, not only of 
our own citizens, but of the entire people, for the soldiers 
and their cause, were wonderful. These gifts were " from 
every department of social, business and religious life ; 
from every age, sex and condition of our community ; by 
gifts, by toil, by skill and handiwork ; out of the basket 
and the store, and out of the full hearts of the community, 
— they have poured through countless channels of benev- 
olence." ' 

* As an instance of this hearty generosity, only one of many ; nine car-loads 
of hospital stores left Boston after battles of " Groveton," "Second Bull 
Run," and " Chantilly," which ended the campaign under Major-General 
John Pope. 



CITIZENS SUBSCRIPTION. 



131 



At the first regularly called Town Meeting that was 
held after the breaking out of the Rebellion, — May 6, 
1861, — three thousand dollars ($3,000) were appropriated 
for the relief of volunteers and their families, according to 
the vote already given on a previous page, the Selectmen 
being appointed a Committee of disbursement. 

At the annual Town Meeting in March, 1862, twenty- 
five hundred dollars ($2,500) were appropriated for the 
same purpose, to aid the families of volunteers, as pro- 
vided by Chap. 222, Statutes of 1861, wherein it was 
enacted that the State should reimburse the cities and 
towns, to a certain amount per family, the sums thus paid ; 
and regularly, at each annual Town Meeting, during the 
continuance of the war, a vote of similar import was unan- 
imously passed. 

In July, 1862, at the solicitation of Mr. William F. 
Poole, a subscription of three hundred and forty dollars 
($340) was made by the following gentlemen, for the 
" purpose of promoting recruiting in Melrose ; for equal- 
izing the bounties of those patriotic citizens who have 
already enlisted ; and for the benefit of the fam 
the quota from Melrose shall leave behind them 

Hon. Samuel E. Sewall 
Hon. Daniel W. Gooch 
Andrew J. Morse 
George W. Heath 
John S. Higgins 
Philip B. Holmes 
William F. PooIq 
Lewis G. Coburn 
Charles Kastner . 

$340 00 



ilies which 


. ^75 


00 


• 50 


00 


• 50 


00 


• 50 


00 


. 30 


00 


• 25 


00 


. 25 


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10 


00 



132 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

This amount was disbursed, mostly in aid of the fami- 
lies of volunteers, by the Treasurer of the fund, Mr. An- 
drew J. Morse. 

Guiding Star Lodge, No. 28, Independent Order of Good 
Templars, sent to the seat of war, on two different occa- 
sions during the years 1861 and 1862, a box and barrel of 
general hospital stores, blankets, drawers, reading matter, 
etc. The first lot was sent to the encampment of the 
Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment, to the care of John 
H. Crocker, of Co. A, and the latter to the hospitals in 
Washington. 

At the annual Town Meeting in March, 1863, it was 
voted that the poll-tax of all the soldiers in the field, 
belonging to Melrose, and all who should go during the 
year ensuing, should be abated ; and also that the poll-tax 
of all who from wounds or disability had been discharged 
from the service of the United States, should be abated. 

At the Town Meeting held June 8, 1863, it was voted 
to set off and appropriate a portion of " Wyoming Ceme- 
tery " as a free burial-place for all soldiers engaged in the 
war, and for the families of such soldiers as might choose 
to use the same. 

For the two or three days immediately following the 
"Battle of Gettysburg," July 1-3, 1863, — and very great 
was the excitement in our town and throughout the North 
at this time, as we all remember, — the studies in our 
schools were suspended, and teachers and scholars spent 
the school hours in preparing lint for hospital use. In 
this manner a large quantity was gathered and sent to the 
hospitals on and around the battle-field. 

At a meeting held Nov. 14, 1863, it was voted that the 
Recruiting Committee, — which consisted of the Select- 
men, Colonel John H. Clark, William B. Burgess and 



C()NTR[HUT10NS OF THE CHURCHES. 1^^ 

George M. Fletcher, and Messrs. Stephen W. Shelton, 
Isaac Emerson, Jr., Rufus Smith and Charles H. Isburgh, 
— should "look after the interests of the families of vol- 
unteers who are now, or may be hereafter, in the service 
of the United States, and see that they are properly pro- 
vided for." A subscription fund was also raised at this 
time to " give all the families of volunteers belonging to 
Melrose, then in service, means to provide for them such 
a Thanksgiving dinner as they are most deservedly enti- 
tled to." 

At the fall election of this year, — 1863, — Mr. Isaac 
Emerson, Jr., was chosen, for the second time, Represen- 
tative to the Massachusetts Legislature. Instead of giv- 
ing a reception to his constituents and friends at his resi- 
dence, as he did the previous year, he donated the sum of 
one hundred dollars ($100) to the "Christian Commis- 
sion." Consequently the " guard at the front " received 
the benefit, rather than the members of the " home 
guard." 

At different times during the war, a number of contri- 
butions were taken up in our various churches in aid of 
those wonderful monuments of the free-will offerings of 
the loyal North, the " Christian " and " Sanitary Commis- 
sions." ^ 

The contributions of the " Orthodox Congregational 
Church " for the " Christian Commission," during the 
years 1863, 4, 5, amounted to three hundred and thirty 
dollars and six cents ($330.06), besides eighty-five dollars 



' The total value of cask, stores and publications distributed by the 
*' Christian Commission " during the war, was $5,478,280.31 ; $2,524,512.56 
of which was donated in cash. Total amount received and distributed by 
the " Sanitary Commission " was $4,924,048 09. 



134- THE MELROSE MLMORIAL, 

and twenty cents ($85.20) contributed for the benefit of 
sick and wounded soldiers in the hospitals at Washington, 
which amount was sent to and distributed by Mrs. Gooch, 
— wife of Hon. Daniel W. Gooch, then our Representative 
in Congress from this District, — whose visits and kind- 
nesses will long be remembered by many a soldier. 

The "Universalist Church" contributed fifty dollars 
(;^50) to the " Sanitary Commission," besides sending sev- 
eral boxes of articles suitable for the sick and disabled 
soldiers in Washington. These were sent to and distrib- 
uted by Mrs. Emma Nichols Marden. 

The " Methodist Episcopal Church " and the " Baptist 
Church " also contributed to the same object, but no rec- 
ord was made of the amount, therefore the sums cannot 
be given here. 

A vocal and instrumental concert was given May 30, 
1864, at Lyceum Hall, under the auspices of Mr. John H. 
B. Henderson, the proceeds of which were for the benefit 
of our sick and wounded soldiers. The sum of eighty- 
seven dollars ($87) was paid into the treasury of the 
" Christian Commission." 

During the first year of the war, many of our ladies 
met in Lyceum Hall, a number of days in succession, for 
the purpose of making and collecting garments and arti- 
cles of all kinds suitable for the sick and wounded soldiers 
in our hospitals. A large collection of comforts and lux- 
uries was thus made and collected. 

Barrels, boxes and bundles of such necessary articles, 
including garments, hospital stores, reading matter, etc., 
were also collected at later times in the war by some of 
our public-spirited and patriotic ladies, and forwarded to 
either the " Christian " or " Sanitary Commissions." That 
these various collections were ever welcomed by, and were 



A soldier's gratitude. 135 

the source of great comfort" to our brave boys, suffering 
from wounds received on the battle-field, or from diseases 
contracted in the service, is made evident by the following 
letter from Lieutenant O. D. Robinson, of the Ninth New 
Hampshire Regiment, written to a lady in our town, soon 
after the reception of one of these boxes : 

Mt. Pleasant Hospital, 
Washington, D. C, June 24, 1864. 
Mrs * * * 

Dear Madam .— Last week a large box arrived at this Hos- 
pital filled with minor boxes and bags, each of which contained 
numerous comforts and luxuries for " sick and wounded sol- 
diers," and I can assure you that the valuable gifts found plenty 
of eJger recipients. To me was given a bag containing a nice 
pair of woollen socks, a linen handkerchief, pocket Testament, 
etc., etc. In the Testament was a brief note bearing the signa- 
ture to which I am addressing this humble missive. 

I trust. Dear Madam, the gifts you have so freely donated 
have not been given in vain, and I hope not unworthily be- 
stowed. Many who that day received presents from friends 
unknown before, will soon return to their native homes to rest 
from the toils and hardships of war, having been disabled by 
wounds received in the recent battles. Others from the same 
cause may live but a few days to enjoy their gifts ; while others 
still, like myself, will soon return to engage anew in the bloody 
contest. I have not been wounded, but having participated in 
the bloody fights of Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna 
River and Cool Arbor, having endured in common with others 
the hardships and exposures attendant upon such a campaign, 
and then suft-ering from a fresh attack of intermittent fever, 
contracted last summer in the swamps of Louisiana and Mis- 
sissippi, I was compelled to leave the field for a few days to 
obtain rest and medical treatment. I arrived in Washington on 
the 10th inst, and shall return in the course of three or four 



136 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

days. Of socks I was nearly destitute, and had lost my pocket 
Testament, which is always my constant companion. Accept 
my thanks for these same articles received through your benev- 
olence. I prize them the more, because, receiving them as I 
do from those I have never seen or known even by reputation, 
I feel that thousands of hearts are in sympathy with us in this 
unprecedented struggle, and that the Matrons and Daughters 
throughout New England are the Mothers and Sisters of those 
who are fighting for our Nation's honor and institutions. 

But I am intruding too largely upon your time and more upon 
your patience. It was my intention to write but a note. I shall 
go back to my comrades refreshed after my short respite, and 
encouraged to faithfully perform my duty, by the kindness I 
have received from friends present and absent. 

I am. Dear Madam, a true friend to all lovers of our Country 
and our Country's Flag. 

Lieutenant O. D. Robinson, 

Co. E, ()th N. H. r.i 

Our fellow-citizen, Rev, John C. Ingalls, spent the win- 
ters of 1 86 1, 2, 3 in Washington, D. C. ; and on one 
occasion, during this time, he raised the sum of twelve 
hundred dollars ($1,200) in the cities of Philadelphia, New 
York, Boston and Portland, for the benefit of the sick and 
■wounded soldiers at the Emory Hospital in Washington. 
He also acted as Chaplain of this hospital for a number 
of weeks, without pay, during the sickness of its regular 
Chaplain. Besides which, he raised the money for build- 
ing a chapel for the use of this same hospital. 



* Lieutenant Robinson was afterwards promoted Captain of his company, 
and remained in the service until the close of the war. 



XIII. 



Our " Roll of Honor.' 

" High on the world's heroic list, 
Shall every name be seen, — 
And time among the cherished dead 
Shall keep their memories green. 

" The patriot's heart shall warmer glow, 
When standing by their grave ; 
And dearer still shall be the flag 
They welcomed death to save." 

" How bright are the honors which await those who, with 
sacred fortitude and patriotic patience have endured all things 
that they might save their native land from division and from 
the power of corruption. The honored dead ! They that die 
for a good cause are redeemed from death. Their names are 
gathered and garnered. Their memory is precious." 

All generations shall commemorate their valor and their 
patriotism. No ties of kindred can impose limitations upon 
the grief and gratitude in which they shall be held and treas- 
ured. The country shall be their monument.^ 



Of the two hundred and three (203) Melrose citizens 
that served in the ranks of our armies during the Rebel- 
lion, " who helped open the Mississippi, who were present 



> Governor Alexander H. Bullock, at the funeral of Lieutenant-Colonel 
George E. Marshall, of .the Fortieth Massachusetts Regiment, at Fitchburg 
April 19, 1866. 
18 



138 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

at Vicksburg, Port Hudson, New Orleans and Mobile, 
who saw the starry flag as it ascended Missionary Ridge, 
and witnessed the flight of Bragg and his host ; who 
marched from Atlanta to the sea, and who were among 
those who so long struggled between Washington and 
Richmond, and who at last saw the rebel flag go down 
upon the Appomattox," twenty-three (23) of them, or about 
one in nine, were either killed on the battle-field or died in 
consequence of services rendered in the great contest. 
Six (6) were killed by the bullet on the field, and the rest 
died in camp, in hospital, or after returning to their homes. 

Two (2) commissioned officers and twenty-one (21) en- 
listed men constitute the oblation made by Melrose to 
Treason. 

Our " Roll of Honor " — containing the names of all 
of our citizens that we have been able to learn, whether 
they served on our quotas or not, but who gave their lives 
for their country — is as follows ; name, regiment, com- 
pany, cause and date of death : 

THE "UNRETURNING BRAVE." 

OFFICERS. 

LIEUT. GEORGE J. MORSE. 

Private Co. A, Thirteenth Regiment ; 2d Lieutenant in 
2d U. S. Col. Troops ; ist Lieutenant Co. G, Fifty-Ninth 
Regiment ; killed at the " Battle of Spottsylvania," May 
12, 1864. 

LIEUT. GEORGE T. MARTIN, 

1st Lieutenant Co. K, Thirty-Eighth Regment ; Senior ist 
Lieutenant Co. G, Fourth Heavy Artillery ; died at Mas- 
sachusetts General Hospital, March 13, 1865, of pyoemia. 



THE " UNRETURNING BRAVE." I39 

PRIVATES. 

HENRY F. FULLER. 

Co. A, Seventeenth Regiment ; died at Baltimore, Md., Oct. 
6, 1 86 1, of typhoid fever. 

MARTIN GREENE. 

Co. G, Second Regiment ; died of wounds received at 
" Battle of Cedar Mountain," Aug. 9, 1862. 

WILLIAM H. MACEY. 

Co. F, Third Maine Regiment ; died at Alexandria, Va., 
Aug. 30, 1862, of typhoid fever. 

SIDNEY B. MORSE, 2D. 

Co. D, Thirteenth Regiment ; died at Finley Hospital, 
Washington, D. C, Sept. 16, 1862, of typhoid fever. 

WILLIAM F. BARRY. 

Co. A, Thirteenth Regiment ; killed at " Battle of An- 
tietam," Sept. 17, 1862. 

JOHN P. SHELTON. 

Co. A, Thirteenth Regiment ; killed at " Battle of An- 
tietam," Sept. 17. 1862. 

THOMAS H. STEVENS. 

Co. A, Sixteenth Regiment ; died at Boston, March 26, 
1 863, of chronic diarrhoea. 

JONAS G. BROWN. 

Co. E, Fiftieth Regiment; died at Baton Rouge, La., June 
18, 1863, of malarial fever. 



140 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



BENJAMIN LYNDE. 

Co. K, Thirty-Eighth Regiment ; died at Baton Rouge, 
La., Aug. 18, 1863, of chronic diarrhoea. 

NATHAN H. BRAND. 

Ninth Battery ; died at Emory Hospital, Washington, D. 
C, March 6, 1864, of cholera morbus. 

RICHARD LEVER. 

Co. A, Fifty-Ninth Regiment ; killed at " Battle of Spott- 
sylvania," May 12, 1864. 

AUGUSTUS GREEN. 

Co. G, Twenty-Second Regiment ; killed at " Battle of 
Bethesda Church," June 3, 1864. 

EDMUND W. DAVIS. 

Co. G, Twenty-Second Regiment ; died at Melrose, July 
22, 1864, of consumption and heart disease. 

ALBERT W. CROCKETT. 

Co. K, Seventeenth Regiment; died in " Andersonville 
Prison," Aug. i, 1864. 

JAMES R. HOWARD. 

Co. K, Thirty-Eighth Regiment ; died at Melrose, Aug. 
16, 1864, of chronic diarrhoea. 

FRANCIS PEABODY. 

Co. K, Seventeenth Regiment ; died at New Berne, N. 
C, Oct. 3, 1864, of yellow fever. 

GEORGE E. RICHARDSON. 

Co. K, Thirty-Eighth Regiment; died in " Salisbury Pris- 
on," Nov. 3, 1864. 



THE "UNRETURNING BRAVE." l^\ 

BENJAMIN F. WILDE. 

Co. H, Forty-Second Regiment ; re-cnlisted in Regular 
Infantry ; afterward in Eleventh New York Cavalry ; 
accidentally shot in fall of 1864. 

JOHN E. STILPHEN. 

Second Battery; died at Melrose, June 25, 1865, of hemor- 
rhoids. 

GEORGE W. LYNDE. 

Co. A, Seventeenth Regiment ; died at Melrose, Jan. 30, 
1866, of consumption. 

WILLIAM F. KRANTZ. 

Co. C, Thirty-Third Regiment ; Veteran Reserve Corps ; 
died at Melrose, June 13, 1866, of dropsy and heart 
disease. 

We cannot speak individually of all the " fallen brave " 
whose names are here given, although all deserve equal 
mention. They have rendered up their lives in behalf of 
what to us was a mighty and vital question, and we would 
hold their memory in veneration, remembering that 

" They never fail 
Who die in a great cause." 

And with the scholarly and lamented Everett, standing 
on the blood-stained field of Gettysburg, at the consecra- 
tion of its National Cemetery, wc would feel as never 
before how justly "from the dawn of history to the pres- 
ent time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and 
admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice 



142 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in 

honor." 

" The muffled drum's sad roll has beat 

The soldier's last tattoo ; 
No more on life's parade shall meet 

That brave and fallen few. 
On Fame's eternal camping-ground 

Their silent tents are spread, 
And glory guards with solemn round 

The bivouac of the dead." 



OUR " ROLL OF HONOR," I43 



HENRY FRANKLIN FULLER. 

Private in Co. A, Seventeenth Regiment Massachusetts 
Vokniteers; died at Baltimore, Md., Oct. 6, 1861, of 
disease contracted in the service. 

Henry Franklin Fuller, the youngest son of William E. 
and Mary (Boardman) Fuller, was born in Melrose, March 
5, 1844. 

The old family names of Melrose, or what was the 
northern part of Maiden, were well represented in the 
great struggle between Right and Wrong ; and in the list 
of dead we find the names of Brown, Fuller, Howard and 
Lynde. 

Fuller was one of our youngest soldiers, and was the 
first one, belonging to Melrose, that laid down his life in 
the service of his country. 

The disaster of the first " Bull Run Battle " had been 
realized, when young Fuller, like so many more of our 
noble and brave, felt called upon to offer himself to go 
forth to battle ; and on the 6th of August, he went to 
"Camp Schouler," at Lynnfield, and enlisted in Co. A, 
Seventeenth Massachusetts Regiment. For some two 
months previous to this time, the duty of thus offer- 
ing himself to the cause of liberty had been revolving 
itself in his mind, but he did not enlist until the above 
date. 

The Seventeenth Regiment left the State on the 23d of 
August, and proceeded to " Camp Andrew," at Baltimore, 
Md., where Fuller underwent the hardships incident to the 
uncomfortable state of the camping-ground, which, accord- 
ing to the following extract from a letter, written by Cap- 



144 "^^^ MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

tain Joseph R. Simonds to the Selectmen of Maiden,^ was 
anything but agreeable or conducive to good health. 

How would the soldier at home like lying upon the bare 
earth every night for six weeks, with nothing but a thin rubber 
blanket under him, and a thinner woollen one over him, and a 
knapsack for a pillow ? 

Up to the time of Fuller's death, the regiment had been 
engaged in no battle or expeditions ; but whatever duties 
were incumbent upon him, he performed faithfully and 
well, until the ist of October, when he was taken sick 
with the typhoid fever, which terminated his life October 
6, 1861. 

His body was brought home and buried in the Melrose 
Cemetery. 

" He, the young and strong, who cherished 

Noble longings for the strife, 
By the roadside fell and perished. 
Weary, with the march of life." 



' Captain Simonds, of our town, was in command of Co. K, Seventeenth 
Regiment, known as the Maiden company, and in which Melrose had sev- 
eral men. 



OUR "ROLL OF HONOR." I45 

SIDNEY BRADFORD MORSE, 2D. 

Private in Co. D, Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment ; 
Color Corporal, July 5, 1862 ; died at the Finley Hos- 
pital, Washington, D. C, Sept. 16, 1862, of disease con- 
tracted in the service. 

" There is a history in almost every home of Massachusetts, 
which will never be written ; but the memory of kindred has it 
embalmed forever. The representatives of the pride and hope 
of uncounted households, departing, will return no more." 

Sidney Bradford Morse, 2d, was the second son of 
George H. and Sarah (Bird) Morse, and was born Dec. 
28, 1844, in Charlestown, Mass. He was one of the 
youngest of our soldier boys ; but he was old enough to 
fully comprehend the danger which threatened our coun- 
try, and was at once aroused at the dark clouds gathering 
over it. At the time of the breaking out of the Rebellion 
he was employed in his father's agricultural warehouse, in 
Boston ; and upon the day our Massachusetts men were 
shot down in the streets of Baltimore, — the 19th of 
April, 1861, — young Sidney hurried home, saying to his 
mother that he had a request to make of her, which was 
that he, — together with his older brother George, — 
might be permitted to enlist, in response to the Presi- 
dent's call, and help uphold our dear old flag, and put down 
their country's enemies. Of course the mother hesitated, 
— what motJicr would not .'' — before she could yield to his 
importunities, and say : 

Go, save our country ! she is first — 
Stand guard until you fall ; 

Or till the danger overcome 

Shall respite the alarum-drum — 
I will delay recall. 
19 



146 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

Go, where along the lurid front 

The Union vanguards tramp ! 
Do your whole duty, danger spurn, 
When Freedom 's laurelled, then return — 

These arms shall be your camp ! 

Upon receiving an affirmative reply, Sidney embraced 
his mother, and ardently thanked her, saying that however 
much he may have deemed it his duty to go, he never 
should have gone with the sin of disobedience to her rest- 
ing upon him ; saying also : " I have neither houses nor 
land to give, but I am willing to give my life for my coun- 
try ! " And truly did his actions verify the assertion. 

He enlisted at once, — as did also his brother George, 
— in the Fourth Battalion of Rifles, which was soon after- 
wards sent to Fort Independence, Boston Harbor, where 
it was recruited to a full regiment, — the Thirteenth, — 
under the command of Colonel Samuel H. Leonard. 

He left Boston with his regiment, July 30, 1861, and 
performed a soldier's duties with earnestness and devotion 
through the various hard marches, severe skirmishes and 
daily fatigues of the fall and winter campaign under Gen- 
eral Banks, on the Upper Potomac, and thence down 
through Virginia to the still severer marchings and fight- 
ings of General Pope's campaign, ending with " Grove- 
ton," " Second Bull Run," and " Chantilly," in August, 
1862 ; being constantly exposed to hardship, day and 
night ; yet passing through all thus far uninjured, but 
very much worn and fatigued ; so much so, that he was 
repeatedly urged to go into the camp hospital and recruit ; 
but he would not leave his post, and on the night before 
the " Second Bull Run Battle," he was found on the 
picket line, entirely exhausted, and taken to the rear. He 
was placed on an open car, with other sick and wounded 



SIDNEY BRADFORD MORSE, 2D. 1 47 

soldiers, and started for Washington ; but, owing to the 
great confusion of those days of battle, he was two nights 
and one day on the way, entirely uncared for ; no food, 
not even a drink of water ; and when he arrived at the 
" Finley Hospital," a typhoid fever was raging fearfully. 
From that time, the fever had taken so firm a hold of him, 
he grew worse and worse until the day of his death, — 
Sept. 1 6, — about a fortnight after reaching Washington. 

The Hospital Chaplain, Rev. W. W. Winchester, for 
several days previous to Sidney's death, repeated passages 
of Scripture to him, and talked with him concerning that 
other and " better land " ; and during his last moments, — 
his father having arrived and being present, — he read the 
beautiful Twenty-Third Psalm ; Sidney, then, as always 
before, greatly enjoying the consolations of Holy Writ ; 
after which his spirit took its flight to the soldier's home 
with perfect calmness and serenity.' 

Although but a lad of seventeen and a half years of age, 
young Morse was a brave and a thorough soldier. It is 
the universal testimony of officers and comrades, that, 
young though he was, he made one of the best and tru- 
est ; never shrinking from any post, however dangerous ; 
and he bore the hardships incident to camp life, and the 
fatigues of the long and wearisome marches of the Regi- 
ment through various parts of Virginia, with perfect 
cheerfulness and heroic fortitude. He was sick long 
before he was found exhausted, and should have left the 



' Mr. Winchester says, in a letter of condolence to Sidney's parents : 
♦• May God bless and comfort the mothers who give their sons ! I stand 
amazed at the fortitude which they sometimes exhibit, when they speak of 
the sacrifices which they make. God sees how they give those dearer to 
them than their heart's blood, and God will reward with blessings richer 
and purer than any this earth can afford." 



148 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

field ; but he was too earnest and ardent in his work to 
allow himself to do so, and would not leave, so long as he 
had strength. At the time he left his regiment he held 
the position of Right General Guide, with rank of Cor- 
poral. 

The letters of young Morse were full of love and con- 
fidence, fearlessness of death, and words of kindness and 
sympathy for his parents in case he should fall in battle, 
or die in the hospital ; often saying, that if he should lay 
down his life it would be in a just and holy cause. His 
remains were embalmed and brought to Melrose, and 
buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery ; the funeral ceremo- 
nies being held September 27, at the Universalist Church, 
a large and sympathizing congregation being present. 

Patriotism ! bravery ! duty ! all are embraced in the 
action and career of the young and noble soldier, Sidney 
Bradford Morse. 

" AVith us his name shall live, 
Through long succeeding years, 
Embalmed with all our hearts can give — 
Our praises and our tears." 



OUR "roll of honor." 149 



WILLIAM FRANCIS BARRY. 

Private in Co. A, Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment ; 
killed at the "Battle of Antietam," Sept. 17, 1862. 

Who dies in vain 
Upon his country's war-fields, and within 
The shadow of her altars ? 

William Francis Barry, another of our youngest sol- 
diers, was th*e second son of Royal P. and Elizabeth (Ser- 
rat) Barry, and was born in Boston on the 13th of Decem- 
ber, 1843. At the breaking out of the Rebellion he was 
a clerk in the house of E. W. Wheelock & Co., Boston, 
dealers in tailors' trimmings. One year later, after the 
reverses to the Union army under General McClellan, 
before the gates of Richmond, and at the time when the 
President was calling for still further re-enforcements, 
young Barry felt it his duty to go forth and battle for his 
country. In conversation upon the subject at this time, 
he said : 

"I don't wish to leave home, but rather stay, — but just such 
young men as I am are called for ; I am well and strong ; and 
it is my duty to go." 

When reminded that by so doing he might lose his life, 
his noble answer was : 

" What is life without a country ? " 

It was not an easy task for the widowed mother to part 
with her beloved boy ; but, with thousands of other 
mothers, she realized the country's necessities, and, lis- 



150 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

tening to the spirit of the following lines, finally acceded 
to his request : 

"Can you selfishly cling to your household joys, 
Refusing this smallest tithe to yield, 
While thousands of modiers are sending boys 

Beloved as yours to the battle-field ? 
Can you see my country call in vain. 

And restrain my arm from the needful blow ? 
Not so ; though your heart should break with pain, 
You will kiss me, mother, and let me go." 

And, with others, — among whom was his bosom friend 
and companion, Charles W. Shelton, — he enlisted at the 
war meeting held Monday evening, July 28th, 1862, was 
sworn into the United States' service, Aug. 4th, at Boston, 
and sent to " Camp Cameron," at Cambridge, a rendez- 
vous for recruits for the regiments then in the field. 

Previous to this time, when the Fourth Battalion of In- 
fantry offered its services to the Government for a short 
term of enlistment, young Barry entered its ranks ; but 
as it was not deemed best to accept any troops for so 
short a time, its services were rejected. 

On the 13th of August, he was ordered, with other 
recruits, to the seat of war, passing through and spending 
a day in Washington ; and joined his regiment, then on 
the Rapid Ann River, Va., on the i8th, a short time pre- 
vious to the battles of " Groveton," " Second Bull Run," 
and " Chantilly," which ended the campaign under Gen- 
eral Pope. The exigencies of the service were such at 
this time that recruits were at once sent to the front, and 
into active service, many of them young and without pre- 
vious drill or military experience of any kind whatever ; 
this was the case with young Barry and his companions 
from Melrose that enlisted in this emergency. 



WILLIAM FRANCIS BARRY. '5^ 

The day after he joined the ranks, according to his let- 
ters home, 

" Those fallen leaves that keep their green, 
The noble letters of the dead," 

his regiment marched twenty-three miles, dnring which 
many of the most experienced gave ont ; but the raw . 
recruits bore up manfully under the severe trial. 

The Thirteenth participated in the engagements on the 
Rappahannock River, from Aug. 20th to the 24th ; Thor- 
oughfare Gap, on the 28th, when he says, " Three men 
were shot down near me " ; and in the disastrous battle of 
" Second Bull Run," on the 30th, when, according to his 
pocket diary, " The bullets whistled like hail, and a round 
shot struck within three feet of me and threw dirt all over 
me ; but I came off without a scratch " ; and in a letter 
written while in camp at Hall's Hill, Va., four miles from 
the capital, he says : 

We went on to the field on the double quick and with hur- 
rah. I never was so excited in my life as then. On the Bat- 
tle-field I felt just as cool as a man could be. I was n't fright- 
ened at all until we got some ways back on the retreat. I 
was helping to carry off a wounded man. The bullets, shell 
and shot struck all round. A person feels much more fright- 
ened at thinking of the danger after he has been through it 
than when he is in the midst of it. 

Of the day after this battle, he says in his diary : 

Centreville was the most mixed up place that ever I saw. 
Artillery, cavalry, ammunhion, ambulances, hacks, and every- 
thing under the sun. Every house, barn and place of shelter 
crowded with wounded. Men of every regiment in the field, 
hunting and inquiring for it, — nobody knew anything. 



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Then came the Maryland campaign, with its hard 
marches, the " Battle of South Mountain," and ending 
with the " Battle of Antietam." The last entry in his 
diary is dated September 8 ; but a letter to his brother 
Royal, found on his body after he was killed, was dated 
Ridgeville, Md., Sept. 12, five days previous to the battle ; 
and the following extract from this, his last letter, gives a 
slight idea of the hardships incident to this campaign : 

The recruits joined us three days ago ; they stand it very 
well so far. Yesterday we marched about eight miles ; day 
before, seventeen ; the first was a pretty hard one ; the day was 
sultry, and the sweat poured off in streams. Near the end of 
the march we got pretty well used up. My shoulders got so 
sore that it was hard work to tell which to put the gun on. 
When we went into camp for the night it was raining, and it 
rained all night. I woke up in the night several times, and 
found my feet in a pool of water ; I would draw them up and 
go to sleep again. 

On the fatal day, the 1 7th of September, the Thirteenth 
Massachusetts was in the thickest of the fight, during the 
early part of the day, and suffered severe losses in killed 
and wounded. Young Barry fought as well and as brave- 
ly as the oldest veteran, until he was shot directly through 
the heart. His friend, Charles W. Shelton, writing from 
Keedysville, Md., on the 19th, two days after the battle, 
after very touchingly alluding to their intimacy, his sorrow 
at his death, and his deep sympathy for his afflicted 
mother, says : 

He was Willie Barry on the battle-field. The coolest, brav- 
est, noblest of the many patriots who that day gave themselves 
a sacrifice to Liberty and Country ! 

His body was buried on the batllc-field. Through the 



WILLIAM FRANCIS BARRY. 1 53 

kind exertions of Mr. Stephen W. Shelton it was ex- 
humed and brought to Meh-ose ; and on the 29th of 
September, very interesting and appropriate funeral cere- 
monies were held in the Baptist Church, the Rev. Mr. 
Edmands delivering the commemorative discourse ; after 
which all that was mortal of brave young Willie Barry 
was laid at rest in Wyoming Cemetery. 

" So prompt at duty's call, 

So dauntless and so brave ; — 
To shield his bleeding Country's life. 
His blood, his life he gave. 

" Rest, Soldier, Patriot, Friend ! 

In your young manhood rest ; — 

Your Country's blessing o'er your bier, 

Her flag above your breast. 
****** 

" A grateful land uprears 

Her tribute to your praise : 
Yours are the holiest of her tears, 
The greenest of her bays." 



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JOHN PARKER SHELTOX. 

Private in Co. A, Thirteenth Regiment Massachusetts 
Volunteers ; killed at the " Battle of Antietam," Sept. 
17, 1862. 

" How sweetly they sleep, who have died for their countr}', 
And never will wake for the combat again, 
But mantled with glor}% they peacefully slumber, 
And rest from their toil in the graves of the slain." 

John Parker Shelton was the only son of John and Ann 
(Kendall; Shelton, and was bom in Boston, June 8th, 
1844. 

He graduated as a medal scholar from the Chauncy 
School, in Boston, about the time of the breaking out of 
the Rebellion ; after which he entered as clerk in a whole- 
sale clothing house in that city, where he was at the time 
of his enlistment, Aug. 7th, 1862. Most of our young 
men who went to the war during its first years were of our 
best families, of good education and of high character ; 
enlisting from a true sense of duty and pure love of coun- 
try ; not from the novelty of the occupation or mere love 
of excitement, or for pecuniary gain, but only and solely 
to save our land from Treason's grasp. Thus was it with 
young Shelton. He enlisted at a time when our regi- 
ments and batteries had been dei^leted by many battles, 
skirmishes and marches, just after the terrible blow and 
disheartening result of the Peninsular campaign, while 
General McClellan and his army were at Harrison's Land- 
ing on the James River. 

"He gave the tribute of a tear 
To those fond hearts who held him dear, 
And southward turned — a volunteer — 
The oft-told story. 



JOHN PARKEH SHELTON. 1 JJ 

To right the wrong, wipe off the shame, 
He cared not that the trump of Fame 
Should sound aloud his humble name- 
In tropes of glor)'. 

For Union, and for equal laws, 

For Libert}' — the grand old cause ; 

How could he speak these names and pause, 

Faltering, uncertain ? 
He knew not what Fate had in store, 
Nor cared her purpose to explore. 
But calmly waited on, before 

Her awful curtain." 

With others who had enlisted in the Thirteenth at this 
time he was forwarded to his regiment, and joined it at 
Mechanicsville, near Washington, after the defeat of our 
army under General Pope ; when the " Second Bull Run 
Battle " had been fought, and Lee's invasion of Maryland 
had begun. Ten days afterward the great " Battle of An- 
tietam " took place. Young Shelton's action in this, his 
first and only battle, is so well told by his friend and com- 
panion, — Ambrose Dawes, — that his letter concerning 
him is here introduced : 

New York, July 4, 1867. 
Mr. E. H. Goss : 

Dear Sir: — It is with great pleasure, not, indeed, unmixed 
with sadness, that I comply with your request to give you some 
account of the last hours of our mutual friend and neighbor, 
John P. Shelton. The noble courage, heroic devotion and 
pure patriotism of that young life, nipped as it was in the bud, 
cannot be too highly appreciated. During the few short days 
he was with the regiment he endeared himself to many, and 
his vivacious temperament did much towards keeping up the 
spirits of his companions during that dark hour when " Bull Run " 
was lost, and before " Antietam " was gained. 



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Enlisting with no other thought but love of country, he went 
forth to fight the good fight, leaving behind him everything 
which makes it " life to live," and carrying nothing with him 
but the prayers of dear ones to shield him from the bullets of 
the enemy. I remember his coming to me just upon the eve of 
the battle, — perhaps ten minutes before it opened, — looking 
very pale, — as we probably all did, — and saying that he felt 
very strangely, and as if he should never return from that field 
alive. I clasped his hand in mine, and encouraged him as well 
as I could, for I felt no fears of that kind myself, and we 
marched together into the fight. Some little time after the bat- 
tle commenced, he turned to me, his face flushed with excite- 
ment, and said : " I am hit in the foot, but shall stick to it and 
have another pop at them." We advised him to quit the field 
in vain. This was the last time I saw him. Soon after I saw 
young Barry fall with a bullet through the forehead. I went 
up to him, but he was dead, and drawing him behind a tree out 
of reach of bullets, we left him. Then I received a slight 
wound, and from loss of blood, being too weak to fight any 
more, left the field. Shelton remained till the regiment was 
ordered to the rear, to make room for re-enforcements, after 
fighting nearly three hours, and then, instead of selfishly look- 
ing out for himself, he volunteered to help a dying comrade 
off the field, although he himself could use but one foot. Thus 
slowly helping this poor fellow out of danger, a bullet hit him 
in the spine, which caused paralysis in the lower limbs. 

He was taken up, in a dying condition, in a blanket, by four 
men, one a member of our regiment, and sent, by mistake or 
from necessity, to one of Sedgewick's Hospitals instead of 
Hooker's, and thus was lost track of. Being informed that he 
had repeatedly asked to see me, I hastened to where he had 
been left ; but unfortunately he had been removed to some 
other place ; and although I travelled from hospital to hospi- 
tal I could not find him. We know that he lived but about 
forty-eight hours, and expired widi no friends around him, in 



JOHN PARKER SHELTON. 1 57 

one of the most uncomfortable places on earth, — a field hos- 
pital. You know the rest ; how his body was found and 
brought home to his bereaved and heart-broken parents, and 
buried in the beautiful cemetery at Wyoming. No better man, 
no more generous spirit fell in the war. He gave his life freely 
in the cause of duty. Why regret that he died such a glorious 
death ? Rather envy him that he died for his country in the cause 
for which Reno, and Mansfield, and Wadsworth, and Reynolds, 
and last, but not least, the Martyred Lincoln, laid down their 
lives. Let us hope that they did not die in vain ; that their 
blood may be sanctified to our country, and from their ashes 
rise the Phoenix, Liberty and Union, forever and ever. And 
now, my dear sir, I thank you for allowing me the privilege of 
testifying to the noble life and glorious death of my truest 
friend and companion. 

I have the honor of being. 

Very Respectfully, 

Your Obedient Servant, 

Ambrose Dawes. 

As is intimated in the above letter, no definite informa- 
tion concerning young Shclton was obtained by his sor- 
row-stricken family for nearly three weeks after the battle. 
As soon as the sad tidings were telegraphed, Mr. Simon 
G. Cheever, — an intimate friend of the family, — started 
immediately for the battle-field, using every exertion to 
find him, or learn aught of his situation ; issuing descrip- 
tive posters and scattering them throughout the region, 
and making all possible inciuiries ; but to no purpose ; no 
trace of him was learned. Nothing was ascertained until a 
letter was received from Surgeon S. G. Palmer, of Gen- 
eral Howard's Division, who wrote from head-quarters, in 
camp near Harper's Ferry, Oct. 2, — the battle was Sept. 
17th, — stating that young Shelton died of his wounds 
at the hospital on Hoffman's Farm ; — in the rear of that 
portion of the battle-field where Sumner's corps, — to 



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which the Thirteenth Regiment belonged, — was engaged, 
and where about a thousand of the wounded had been 
brought ; — and that he had been buried in a pleasant 
spot beneath a walnut tree, by the side of many others, 
about an eighth of a mile from the farm house ; at the 
same time sending home what few effects were found 
upon his body. When these facts were learned, his cousin, 
Mr. Stephen W. Shelton, and his brother-in-law, Mr. 
George W. Copeland, at once proceeded to the battle-field 
and brought his body home. He was buried in Wyoming 
Cemetery on the i6th of October, the funeral services 
being held in the Baptist Church. An appropriate ser- 
mon was preached by the pastor. Rev. Mr. Colby, and he 
was assisted in the solemn ceremonies by the Rev. Wil- 
liam H. Munroe, rector of the Episcopal Church. 

As has been said, " Antietam " was young Shelton's 
first and only battle ; he had not been in even a skirmish 
before ; and it is the testimony of all, — officers and pri- 
vates, — that he fought well and manfully, — the bravest 
of the brave, — on that bloody field. Would that he had 
not been called to render up his young life so early in the 
great conflict ! 

" There is a tear for all that die, 

A mourner o'er the humblest grave ; 
But nations lift the funeral cry 

And freedom weeps above the brave. 

" For them is sorrow's purest sigh 

O'er ocean's heaving bosom sent ; 
For them are tears in every eye ; 
All earth becomes their monument. 

" A theme to crowds that knew them not, 
Lamented by admiring foes, 
Who would not choose their glorious lot, 
A\'ho would not die the death thev chose ? " 



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JONAS GREEN BROWN. 
Private in Co. E, Fiftieth Massachusetts Regiment ; died 
at Baton Rouge, La., June i8, 1863, of disease con- 
tracted in the service. 

Jonas Green Brown, son of Joseph and Keziah (Gerry) 
Brown, was born in Melrose, June 20, 1824. 

In August, 1862, when the President called for three 
hundred thousand more troops, to serve for nine months. 
Brown enlisted in Captain Littlefield's South Reading 
Company, Fiftieth Regiment, of which Carlos P. Messer, 
of Haverhill, was Colonel. The nucleus of the Fiftieth 
was the Seventh Massachusetts Militia Regiment, and 
it was composed of companies from Essex and Middlesex 
Counties. The Colonel and Lieutenant-Colonel, — John 
W. Locke, of South Reading, — were Captains in the 
three months' service when the Rebellion broke out. The 
Fiftieth was sent into the " Department of the Gulf," and 
assigned to the command of Acting Brigadier-General N. 
A. M. Dudley, First Division, Third Brigade, Nineteenth 
Army Corps, and was encamped at Baton Rouge. On the 
14th of March it accompanied Major-General Banks' expe- 
dition to the rear of Port Hudson, which was undertaken 
for the purpose of allowing Admiral Farragut, with his 
two war steamers, "Hartford" and " Albatross," to pass 
the batteries. This object was successfully accomplished, 
and the Fiftieth returned to Baton Rouge. It was after- 
wards actively engaged in the "Siege of Port Hudson," 
and, after the surrender of that stronghold, was encamped 
within its fortifications ; but previous to the siege, and 
while at Baton Rouge, Brown was attacked with diar- 
j-hoea, — May 17th, — and died June i8th, 1863. 



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An extract from Captain Littlefield's letter to the widow, 
— indorsed by Lieutenants Warren and Draper, — testi- 
fies to the regard in which Brown was held by his officers 
and fellow-soldiers : 

We feel that an all-wise Providence has in His, to us some- 
times mysterious dispensations, seen fit to take from our num- 
ber a brother soldier, whom we esteemed for his virtues and 
respected for his personal worth ; while from you He has taken 
a loved partner and support, and from your children a kind 
father and protector. No words can express to you what we 
feel in our hearts for his afflicted family, and we can only point 
you to Him who has said, " Blessed are they that mourn, for 
they shall be comforted." Hoping that you will bring your 
wounded, broken heart, with all its burdens and sorrows, to 
Him who has said He will be the widow's God, and the Father 
to the fatherless, I subscribe myself. 

Yours in affliction, 

S. F. LlTTLEFIELD, 

Captain Co. E. 



OUR "roll of honor" 161 



BENJAMIN LYNDE. 

Private in Co. K, Thirty-Eighth Massachusetts Regiment ; 
died at Baton Rouge, La., Aug. 18, 1863, of disease con- 
tracted in the service. 

Benjamin Lynde was the ol'dest son of George and Har- 
riet (Favor) Lynde, and was born in Melrose, Aug. 14, 
1831. 

At the time of his enUstment, August 1862, he was 
pursuing his occupation as a farmer. He was the brother 
of George Warren Lynde, who enUsted the year before in 
the Seventeenth Regiment. 

The Thirty-Eighth Regiment was sent into the " De- 
partment of the Gulf," where it participated in the " Siege 
of Port Hudson," and various battles and marches in Lou- 
isiana. In the summer of 1863, Lynde was attacked with 
the chronic diarrhoea, and during the long and wearisome 
march through the " Teche " country, he was hardly able 
to keep his place in the ranks, and was often advised to go 
to the hospital ; but he would not listen to such advice, 
and persevered much longer than he ought, performing 
every duty incumbent upon a well man. After a rest at 
Alexandria, he recovered somewhat, but after passing 
through the " Siege of Port Hudson," he became worse, 
and on the i8th of August, while the regiment was lying 
at Baton Rouge, he died. His comrades placed a head 
board at his grave, giving his name, age, residence, reg- 
iment, company, and date of death, and he sleeps in 
a soldier's grave on the distant banks of the " Father 
of Waters." He left behind a wife to mourn his loss. 



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GEORGE JAMES MORSE. 

Private in Co. A, Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment ; 
2d Lieutenant in Second U. S. Colored Troops ; ist 
Lieutenant in Co. G, Fifty-Ninth Massachusetts Regi- 
ment ; killed at the "Battle of Spottsylvania," May 12, 
1864. 

" With sword on thigh, ' to do or die,' 
I march to meet the foe." 

" A nation's tears will greet the dead, 
Whose blood for Freedom's cause was shed." 

George James Morse — brother of Sidney Bradford 
Morse — was the oldest son of George H. and Sarah 
(Bird) Morse, and was born in New York, Dec. 7, 1842. 

He was one of the earliest of our citizens to enlist. On 
the 19th of April, — witu his brother Sidney, — he joined 
the Fourth Battalion of Rifles, which offered its services 
to the government for three months' service, but being 
refused for that period of time, was soon afterwards 
recruited to the Thirteenth Regiment of three years' 
troops. 

During the fall and winter of 186 1-2, he experienced 
the fortunes of the Thirteenth on the upper waters of 
the Potoma?, engaged in many severe skirmishes, hard 
marches and arduous picket duties ; followed by the 
campaign of General Pope, ending with the battles of 
"Groveton," "Second Bull Run," and " Chantilly." 

While at Warrenton, Va., before the hard fighting of 
this campaign commenced, he says, in a letter to his 
mother : 

To-day ends our first year in " Uncle Sam's " service. Two 
years more at the farthest, and our troubles and privations will 



GEORGE JAMES MORSE. 163 

be over, and we can return to our homes with the proud con- 
sciousness of having done our duty, and spent the best years of 
our lives in our country's service. 

At the " Second Bull Run Battle " he narrowly escaped 
with his life. Two bullets pierced his knapsack ; his can- 
teen and rifle-sling were both shot away ; and his right 
hand w^as shattered by a musket ball, on account of which 
he was sent to the hospital at Philadelphia. Amputation 
of his hand was at first thought necessary ; but it was 
saved, and he soon afterw^ard received the appointment of 
a clerkship in the hospital where he was confined. It was 
while here that his much loved brother, Sidney, died. 
Poignant was his grief at the sad tidings, as will be seen 
by the following letter to his mother, written with his left 
hand : 

Philadelphia, Sept. 19, 1862. 
My dear mother : — Last evening I received your letter, an- 
nouncing the departure of my beloved brother to the spirit 
world. May God give us strength to bear with our affliction, 
and make us better because of it. I feel it deeply, — more so 
than I can express ; but I find comfort in the reflection that he 
is in a better world, where we shall all meet again. He " has 
fought the good fight," atid died in the service of his country ! 

■ Although so young in years, he was old in experience, and 
has given up his young life to the best cause that has engaged 
the attention of our countrymen since the days of the American 
Revolution. He was beloved by all who knew him. No one 
knows the pain and anguish I suffer ; but it is softened by the 
remembrance that what I could do for him was cheerfully and 
gladly done. He little knew that many a time I had given him 
the last cracker, and knew not where to get more. But 1 am 
thankful it was in my power to do so. For fifteen months we 
were together, — and, so far as I was able, I feel that I have 



164 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

done my duty by him. This comforts me ; and now I only look 
forward to that time when I shall meet him in that life where 
there are no wars, " nor rumors of war," but wheie all is peace 
•and love. And, oh, what a joyful meeting it will be ! Father, 
mother, brothers and sisters, all united in one happy family, — 
never more to joart ! 

After recovering from this wounded hand, and having 
been discharged from the Thirteenth Regiment, he was 
commissioned, for valor displayed and meritorious services 
rendered, 2d Lieutenant in the Second United States Vol- 
unteers, — colored troops, — in the " Department of the 
Gulf." Here he participated in the sieges of " Vicksburg" 
and " Port Hudson." 

On the 5 th of July, during the "Siege of Port Hudson," 
where he was forty-three days in the trenches, he was 
wounded in the head ; and before he could be taken from 
the field he received a sun-stroke. Soon afterwards a 
malarial fever seized upon him, and it was the decision of 
the surgeon, that the only hope of saving his life was for 
him to leave that region, and return home ; and at his 
positive command, he tendered his resignation, which was 
accepted, and he was sent North. He arrived at his home 
in Melrose, in September, in a very dangerous condition ; 
so much so, that no one that saw him at the time sup- 
posed it was possible for him to live ; but God had other 
work for him yet to do, and with constant and tender care 
he began slowly to recover. 

In less than two months after arriving home, and while 
yet convalescent, he learned that J. Parker Gould, his for- 
merly much esteemed and honored Major of the Thir- 
teenth Regiment, had been commissioned Colonel of the 
Fifty-Ninth Regiment Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers, 
and at once determined to enlist under him ; and, rising 



GEORGE JAMES MORSE. 165 

from his sick bed, he penned a note to Colonel Gould, 
soliciting an appointment. Parents and friends, thinking 
his health not sufficiently established, endeavored to dis- 
suade him from entering the service again so soon. 

But his answer was : " I enlisted at first, because I felt 
it to be my duty ; the same cause still exists, and the same 
necessity for action ; and if my life is spared, and I am 
needed, _;?z'6' years from this time will find me in the field, 
for while this war lasts, that must be my home." 

He received a commission, Oct. 22, 1863, as 2d Lieu- 
tenant in Co. G, and, as soon as his health permitted, was 
ordered on recruiting service for his regiment, and sent to 
Woburn, Stoneham, and other towns. Dec. 14th, he 
was ordered to the camp at Readville ; and on March 4th, 
he was promoted to ist Lieutenant. 

During the latter part of April, 1864, the Fifty-Ninth 
Regiment was hurried off to the seat of war, in order to 
join in the final campaign under General Grant. It left 
Readville April 26th, and arrived in Virginia just in sea- 
son to cross the Rappahannock with the grand army, and 
entered into the " Battle of the Wilderness," without rest, 
only ten days after leaving the State. Here Lieutenant 
Morse was wounded in the head by a falling tree ; but he 
remained from his regiment only a very short time, 
returning with bandaged head to take command of his 
company, the Captain of which had retired. 

During the battles of the succeeding days he was often 
cautioned and warned from going ahead of his men dur- 
ing action. His answer was : " If you want your men to 
go anywhere, you must lead them." 

He seems to have had a presentiment before leaving 
home, and more especially before entering his last battle, 
that he should be killed, as was manifested by messages 



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left behind, and from the fact that just before the " Battle 
of Spottsylvania," or as it is sometimes called the " Battle 
of the Angle," he took a paper from his pocket, directed 
it to his mother, and requested Sergeant Bearcc, of his 
company, to see that she received it, as he felt that he 
should not survive the coming battle. 

He led his company into that battle, and a ball pierced 
his right side, shattering at the same time a pistol in his 
belt. Placing him upon a stretcher, two of his men started 
with him for the hospital four miles in the rear. When 
about half way there, he became faint, said that he was 
dying, and requested them to stop : after leaving with 
them messages for the wife, mother, and other dear ones 
at home, he said : " Tell the boys I die like a soldier " ; 
after which his spirit took its flight to that other and bet- 
ter world. And thus did he die the " proudest of all 
deaths," as he termed the death of a comrade in arms, 
killed in the battles before Richmond in 1 862 ; saying of 
him, in a letter to his mother : 

Poor fellow! he is at rest, with the proudest of all names; 
and he died the proudest of all deaths, a soldier fighting for 
his country. 

His body was taken to the hospital, and buried under 
the direction of his Colonel, who was then at the hospital 
on account of a sun-stroke, received during the " Battle 
of the Wilderness " ; and there, in the blood-stained soil 
of Virginia, lies one who was, in the words of Colonel 
Gould, who wrote his parents a few days afterwards, " a 
very brave soldier." His remains were afterwards re- 
moved by the Government to the National Cemetery in 
Fredericksburg, Va., Grave No. 201, Division A, Sec- 
tion C. 



GEORGE JAMKS MORSE. 1 67 

Lieutenant Morse was a member of Guiding Star 
Lodge, No. 28, Independent Order of Good Templars, 
in Melrose, and at a meeting, held May 26th, 1864, a 
series of resolutions was offered and adopted, one of 
which was as follows : 

Resolved, That we tender our deepest sympathy to his be- 
reaved wife, parents and relatives, in this our mutual affliction, 
and we unite with them in mourning the loss of a worthy 
brother, an affectionate son, husband and father ; and we also 
seek to participate with them in the only consolation to be 
derived from the circumstances of his decease ; that his life 
having illustrated his unbending couragtj, he merits the martyr's 
crown by being able, amid the allurements of wife, child and 
home, to lay down his life upon the battle-field, exclaiming with 
other dying heroes : 

" It is sweet to die for one's country." 

The following incident is told of Lieutenant Morse 
while in the trenches before " Port Hudson " : One day 
he was ordered to have his men build some breastworks 
on a certain portion of the line, very much exposed to the 
enemy's fire. While overseeing this labor, a colonel rode 
out to the spot, saying that he had been told that there 
'was a coward out there ; the bullets flew by, and close to 
the colonel, and ofi' he started for a more retired position. 
Very soon after a major rode out, and made the same 
assertion. Lieutenant Morse said nothing ; but the flying 
bullets spoke for him, whistling such a melody about the 
major's ears, that he soon turned his horse, and followed 
the course of the colonel before him. Nothing more was 
heard about cowardice. 

Remarks made by those who go from us and return 
again are seldom remembered ; but let them be made by 
one that is taken from us, and they are recalled and treas- 



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ured. A remark made by Lieutenant Morse to his 
mother, just before leaving home for the last time, was : 
" If I am worthy to go and wear a soldier's uniform, I am 
worthy to fill a soldier's grave." 

We close this sketch with a stanza from a poem entitled 
" The Dying Soldier," suggested by the death of the two 
brothers, — George and Sidney, — and written by a resi- 
dent of Melrose : 

Thou Southern clime ! e'en thou must be 
" His Chancel, Nave and Sacristy " ; 
Death ended many a bright career 
Whose noble forms lie buried here ; 
Ye winds and rains, a requiem raise, 
And chant it o'er these warriors' graves. 
They've ended here all dreams of fame, 
But leave behind an honored name. 



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OUR "roll of honor.'' iCc) 



AUGUSTUS GREEN. 

Private in Co. G, Twenty-Second Massachusetts Regi- 
ment ; killed at the " Battle of Bethesda Church," June 
3, 1864. 

" He sleeps where he fell, 'mid the battle's roar, 
With his comrades true and brave ; 
And his noble form we shall see no more, — 
It rests in a hero's grave." 

Augustus Green, the oldest son of Levi and Sarah 
(Davis) Green, was born in Maiden on the 28th of May, 
1841. 

He enlisted in Co. G, Twenty-Second Massachusetts 
Regiment, in September 1861. The Twenty-Second 
Regiment was organized by Hon. Henry Wilson, and left 
the State in October 1861. It was encamped a num- 
ber of months at Hall's Hill, Va., after which it was 
engaged in the battles of the Peninsular campaign, under 
General McClellan, followed by " Antietam," "Fredericks- 
burg," "Chancellorsville" and " Gettysburg," and then in 
the final campaign under General Grant. For a month pre- 
vious to the " Battle of Bethesda Church," it was engaged 
in constant fights and skirmishes. Up to this time. Green 
had followed the fortunes of his regiment without receiv- 
ing a wound. On the second day of the fight at this 
place, — which besides the church, a small, one-story, 
unpainted building, consisted of only three or four 
houses, — the Twenty-Second had been in line of battle, 
behind its breastworks, all day, and Green had occupied a 
position behind a large oak-tree during this and the pre- 
vious day. Just before night he ventured to put his head 



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out from behind the tree, to take a look at the enemy's 
line, when a sharpshooter shot him through the forehead, 
and he expired almost instantly. He was buried by his 
comrades on the field of battle, and there his body now 
rests. He is spoken of by his comrades in arms as a bold 
soldier, and one that fought well, never shrinking from his 
duty. 

"He fought and died. A nameless grave 

Where no sad willows o'er him wave, 

Or sculptured stone ext6ls the brave 
In chiselled numbers, 

Was his. The bird's shrill symphonies, 

The restless murmur of the trees, 

The sighing of the evening breeze. 
Mar not his slumbers." 



OUR "ROLL OF HONOR." I7I 



ALBERT WATERSTON CROCKETT. 

Private in Co. K, Seventeenth Regiment ; died in " An- 
dersonville Prison," Ga., Aug. i, 1864. 

Albert Watcrston Crockett, — brother of George F. 
Crockett, who served in the Third Battery, — was the son 
of George B. and Adehne D. Crockett, and was born in 
Boston, Jan. 3, 1843. 

At the time of his enhstment, August 1861, he was 
employed in French's daguerrotype and photographic 
material establishment on Washington Street, Boston. 
His regiment was sent to and served its time in the " De- 
partment of North Carolina," and Crockett was one of the 
best of soldiers, performing his duties well and faithfully 
up to the time of his captivity, which was at the " Battle 
of Batchelder's Creek," Feb. i, 1864. On that day, at four 
o'clock, A. M., the rebels made an attack on the pickets 
and camp of the One Hundred and Thirty-Second New 
York Regiment, near Batchelder's Creek, nine miles from 
New Berne. Lieutenant-Colonel John F. Fellows, with 
portions of the five companies stationed near P"ort Totten 
— D, E, H, I and K, — the other five being in New 
Berne, went to assist in repelling the attack. The 
Seventeenth arrived just as the enemy, numbering fifteen 
thousand men, had succeeded in carrying the bridge, and, 
under cover of woods and fog, it succeeded in flanking 
our small force ; and, finding resistance useless against 
such overwhelming numbers, orders were given to fall back 
to the crossing of the railroad and Trent road, there to 
make another stand. At this time, the remainder of the 
Union force had retreated, leaving the Seventeenth alone 
to check the advance of the enemy. Soon after, Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel Fellows, together with seven other officers 



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and fifty-eight enlisted men, were taken prisoners. Three 
were killed, and three severely wounded. Lieutenant- 
Colonel Fellows was one of the Union officers who were 
placed by the rebel authorities in the city of Charleston, 
they thinking to prevent our gunboats and batteries 
from shelling it. He was afterwards exchanged, and 
returned to his regiment. Crockett, with others, was 
taken first to " Belle Isle," and thence to " Anderson- 
ville " ; and while performing these marches became very 
foot-sore. Before his imprisonment he was one of the 
most cleanly and careful of soldiers as regarded his bodily 
health ; but afterwards, while being slowly starved to 
death, he became disheartened, and was careless of him- 
self; in consequence of which, dirt and vermin, ever 
abounding in those Southern prisons, aggravated his 
troubles, — and chronic diarrhoea and scurvy seizing upon 
him, soon ended his life. He died a very hard death, 
suffering terribly from his disease, and for want of proper 
care and nourishment. At the time of his death, he had 
bartered everything he had for food, excepting an old 
pair of drawers and a blouse ; the latter given him by his 
fellow prisoner and sufferer, John E. Ouinn, who first went 
out from our town, in 1861, in the Thirty-Second Regi- 
ment, but was discharged for disability, and afterwards 
re-enlisted in the Seventeenth Regiment, and was taken 
prisoner at the same time with Crockett, but who survived 
all the horrors of " Andersonville " and "Belle Isle," and 
returned to tell the tale. 

Crockett was buried outside the " prison pen," where so 
many thousands of our brave boys are now sleeping, and 
the number of his grave is 4,483 ; and there he will sleep 
with his comrades " till a clarion, louder than that which 
marshalled them to the combat, shall awake their slum- 
bers." 



OUR "roll of honor." 173 

JAMES ROWLAND HOWARD. 

Private in Co. K, Thirty-Eighth Massachusetts Regi- 
ment ; died Aug. 16, 1864, of disease contracted in the 
service. 

" The least in rank, but not in honor." 

James Rowland Howard, the fourth son of James and 
Mary (Holt) Howard, was born in Melrose, Feb. 15, 1841. 
His father and grandfather were also natives of Melrose, 
or, as it was then called. North Maiden. When the 
Rebellion broke out, James was in Charlestown, Mass., 
learning the harness-maker's trade, and he expressed a 
very strong desire to enlist in the service of his country 
at once ; but, as he was not then of age, yielded to the 
remonstrances of his widowed mother. 

In July 1862, when the renewed and earnest call came 
for more men, he could no longer withstand the appeal. 
The spirit and desire to serve his country, which actuated 
so many thousands of our young men at this time, was 
his ; and listening to the lines of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 

Listen, young heroes ! your country is calling ! 

Time strikes the hour for the brave and the true ! 
Now, while the foremost are fighting and falling, 

Fill up the ranks that have opened for you! 

and the mother telling him to act as he thought best, as he 
was then free, he enlisted during the latter part of July, 
with several other Melrose men, in Co. K, Thirty-Eighth 
Regiment, and was mustered in at "Camp Stanton," 
Lynnfield, Aug. 12, 1862, and left the State Aug. 26th. 
The Thirty-Eighth was ordered to join the " Banks' 



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Expedition," and was sent into the " Department of the 
Gulf," where it experienced hard service ; having been en- 
gaged, previous to the time that Howard left it, in the " Bat- 
tle of Bisland," the " Siege of Port Hudson," and many 
severe marches through the " Teche," and other portions 
of Louisiana, one of the marches being ninety-six miles 
in four days. It was during the " Siege of Port Hudson," 
and while encamped in the woods, that his system became 
thoroughly impregnated with the poison of the miasmas 
from the swamps and bayous of the surrounding region ; 
so much so as to deprive him of nearly all sense of feeling 
in his flesh. 

Chronic diarrhoea seized upon him, very much reducing 
his strength and ability for duty ; and yet, although so 
reduced, he would not listen to appeals to enter the 
hospital, saying that he " entered the service to work, not 
to be waited upon." Upon being examined by the sur- 
geon, he saw that it was necessary that he should be sent 
North ; and in August he was granted a furlough, but, 
owing to detentions, he did not arrive home until October. 
His furlough expiring in December, he reported himself, 
with the intention of returning to the field ; but the 
authorities would not receive him, and ordered his dis- 
charge, which was given Dec. 5, 1863. 

Disease had so firmly seated itself upon him, that con- 
sumption was engendered, and he lived but a few months 
after his discharge, dying Aug. 16, 1864. 

Howard is highly spoken of by his companions in arms 
as a true soldier, and one that performed every duty incum- 
bent upon him. He has gone to his reward. He did not 
die upon the battle-field, nevertheless he gave his life for 
his country. 






OUR "roll of honor." 175 



FRANCIS PEABODY. 

Private in Co. G, Twenty-Second Massachusetts Regi- 
ment ; discharged April 21, 1862, for disabiUty ; re-en- 
hsted in Co. A, in the Seventeenth Massachusetts 
Regiment, Aug. 11, 1862; died at New Berne, N. C, 
Oct. 3, 1864, of yellow fever. 

Francis Peabody, son of Torrey and Matilda (Alley) 
Peabody, was born in Lynn, Mass., Dec. 31, 1845. He 
enlisted in the Twenty-Second Regiment, — raised by 
Hon. Henry Wilson, — and was mustered into the service 
Oct. 5, 1 86 1, but was discharged for disability, April 21, 
1862. In the July following, when the exigency of the 
country demanded a large accession to the ranks in the 
field, young Peabody, having recovered his health, heard 
again the cry : 

Our country 's calling ! Go forth ! go forth ! 
To danger and glory, ye gallants ! 

and enlisted in Co. A, Seventeenth Massachusetts Regi- 
ment, being sworn into service, Aug. 11, 1862. This 
regiment experienced severe and honorable service in the 
" Department of North Carolina." Peabody joined his 
regiment at New Berne, — two other recruits from our 
town, Edward W. Kendall and James S. Macey, joining at 
the same time, — and served his country faithfully and 
with true soldierly bearing, through the various marches, 
skirmishes and battles incident to the North Carolina 
campaigns. 

He again re-enlisted, Jan. 4, 1864, as a veteran volun- 
teer, under General Order No. 191 from the War Depart- 



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ment. Soon after this rc-enlistment, in February 1864, he 
became Orderly for Brigadier-General I. N. Palmer, and 
served in that capacity until the time of his death, Oct. 3, 
1864. He died of yellow fever, at New Berne, during the 
prevalence of that epidemic. His body now lies in the 
" Old Cemetery " of that city. The father and brother of 
Francis both served in the army, and both are now suffer- 
ing from the effects of services then rendered. 

We close this sketch with the following testimonial 
from General Palmer, now Lieutenant-Colonel 2d U. S. 
Cavalry : 

Fort Laramie, D. T., | 
Jan. 6, 1868. j 

Mr. E. H. Goss, Melrose, Mass : 

Dear Sir: — Your letter of the ist of August only reached 
me a short time since, as I was absent for a few months from 
this Post, and my letters were not forwarded to me. 

With regard to the young man, Francis Peabody, late of the 
Seventeenth Mass. Volunteers, I can only say that he was on duty 
at my Head-Quarters at New Berne, North Carolina, for some 
time before his death, which occurred during the terrible season 
of yellow fever in 1864. He was always a remarkably quiet, 
well behaved, trustworthy man. Although he did not meet a 
soldier's death on the battle-field, his name should nevertheless 
be enrolled with the list of the heroes whose lives were given 
so freely in the service of their countiy during the Rebellion. 

I am, sir, 

Very respectfully, yours, 

I. N. Palmer, 
Lieut. -Co/. 2d Cavalry, Bt. Brig.-General. 



OUR "roll of honor." 177 



GEORGE ELWYN RICHARDSON. 

[Communicated.] 

The subject of this notice was born May 11, 1844. He 
enhsted in Co. K, with other young men from this town, 
in the Thirty-Eighth Massachusetts Regiment. 

At the early age of eighteen, he left a pleasant home 
and associations to endure the hardships, and meet the 
dangers of a soldier's life. He went into camp at Lynn- 
field, Aug. 15, 1862, and. left the State, Sept. 24, for Balti- 
more, and remained there until the loth of November, 
when his regiment left for New Orleans ; and, after being 
delayed at Fortress Monroe and Ship Island, arrived 
safely at that city, Dec. 31. For nearly two years he 
served under General Banks, in the " Department of the 
Gulf," sharing with his regiment the dangers and honors 
of the Western Louisiana and Port Hudson campaigns. 
He left Louisiana with his regiment, and joined the army 
of General Sheridan, in the Valley of the Shenandoah, in 
the fall of 1864. 

At the battle of "Cedar Creek " he had the misfortune 
to be taken prisoner. He was carried first to Richmond 
and then to Salisbury, N. C, where he died on the 3d of 
November following, in the rebel prison of that place. 
Thus he died at the early age of twenty, a martyr in the 
cause of his country. We have no remarkable incidents 
of his soldier life to record, but we have the testimony of 
his comrades, that he was a good soldier, always cheer- 
fully doing his duty ; and although he fell thus early, he 
will not die in the memory and love of his friends. He 
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and 

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Sabbath School, and all that knew him had confidence in 
the purity of his character, and cherish the hope of meet- 
ing him in that home above, "where no sorrow shall 
come," but where the redeemed of the Lord shall enjoy 
an eternal heaven of joy on high, c. h. u. 



OUR " ROLL OF HONOR." IJQ 

GEORGE THOMAS MARTIN. 

[Communicated.] 

George Thomas Martin was born in Boston, May 7, 
1840. In April, 1846, his parents removed to Melrose, 
which continued to be his home until his death. He 
early sought to enter the service of his country, and was 
commissioned 2d Lieutenant of Co. K, Thirty-Eighth 
Massachusetts Volunteers, took an active part in recruit- 
ing his company, and proceeded with his regiment to 
Baltimore. While encamped here, he was wounded in 
the ankle by the accidental discharge of a pistol, and 
though he soon appeared to recover from it, yet it is prob- 
able that it was an indirect cause of his death. The 
Thirty-Eighth was assigned to General Banks' corps, and 
sailed soon after for Ship Island. From here it pro- 
ceeded to Carrollton, La., and thence took part in the first 
movement on "Port Hudson." At the "Battle of Bis- 
land," young Martin was promoted to be ist Lieutenant. 
In the long marches of this campaign, and in the " Siege 
of Port Hudson," he bore a part. The hardships of this 
service induced a varicose vein, and he was compelled to 
ask his discharge, which was given, and he returned to 
Melrose. Some months' rest followed, when he re-en- 
tered the army, and was commissioned Senior ist Lieu- 
tenant of Co. C, Fourth Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, 
Aug. 16, 1864. He was ordered to the fortifications near 
Washington. About the ist of March, 1865, he obtained 
leave of absence, and entered the Massachusetts General 
Hospital at Boston, in order to have the varicose vein 
removed. This was in part successfully accomplished ; 
but pyaemia ensued, causing his sudden death, March 13, 



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1865. To die, for him, however, "was gain." His dying 
hours were full of triumphant joy, for he was sustained 
by a hope in Christ, which did not fail. He united with 
the Congregational Church in Melrose, in June 1858, and 
had been active in the Sabbath School and prayer meet- 
ings, as well as the more social gatherings of the church. 
He was also an active member of the Boston Young 
Men's Christian Association. 

Thus in merest outline is the brief life of one of our 
soldiers sketched! How they loved him and how they 
miss him at home, in the social gathering, the prayer 
meeting, the church, the Sabbath School, cannot here be 
told ; we know that his merry laugh, his earnest, cheerful 
tones are hushed and still here forever ! We know, too, 
that we shall meet him again, where every sound of 
earthly strife is ended, and where " there shall be no more 
death, neither sorrow nor crying." c. n. c. 



OUR " ROLL OF HONOR, 



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JOHN EASTMAN STILPHEN. 

Private in the Second Massachusetts Battery; died June 
25, 1865, of disease contracted in the service. 

John Eastman Stilphen was born in Dresden, Maine, 
June 18, 1830. At the breaking out of the RebeUion, 
and for a few years previous, he was Hving in Melrose, 
following his occupation as a carpenter. He enlisted in 
Nims' Second Battery, which was mustered into the ser- 
vice July 31, 1 861, and sent to Baltimore, Md. While 
here it took part in the " Eastern Shore Virginia Expedi- 
tion" ; and, in April 1862, was ordered to report to Major- 
General B. F. Butler, commanding " Department of the 
Gulf," where it saw much and arduous service ; taking 
part in the " Siege of Vicksburg," " Battle of Baton 
Rouge," " Siege of Port Hudson," " Red River Expedi- 
tion," and other battles and skirmishes, besides many hard 
marchings and counter-marchings throughout that Depart- 
ment. Stilphen was one of the best of soldiers, perform- 
ing every duty incumbent upon him, although suffering 
from his disease — hemorrhoids — during all the latter 
part of the period of his service ; so much so, that most 
men under like circumstances would have sought for and 
obtained a discharge ; but Stilphen remained at his post 
until his time was out ; and one who served with him 
during these many campaigns, says that " he was as true 
as steel, and never flinched when under fire." He was 
mustered out of the service, Aug. ri, 1864, after which 
time he was able to do but little work, gradually fliiling 
under the fatal hold of his disease. He died June 25, 
1865, leaving a wife and three children to mourn his loss. 



182 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

and was buried in Wyoming Cemetery. A handsome 
head-stone bears, besides his name and date of death, the 
following inscriptions : 

A Soldier's Grave. 
HE HAS LEFT US FOR HIS HOME IN HEAVEN. 



OUR "roll of honor." 185 



GEORGE WARREN LYNDE. 

Private in Co. A, Seventeenth Massachusetts Regiment ; 
commissioned Brevet ist Lieutenant, Dec, 31, 1864; 
died Jan. 30, 1866, of disease contracted in the service. 

George Warren Lynde was the youngest son of George 
and Harriet (Favor) Lynde and was born in Melrose, 
Sept. 2, 1846. 

This was another of our boy-soldiers, he being but 
fifteen years of age at the time of his enlistment. He 
was then attending school, and, on the morning of the 
23d of August, 1 86 1, as had been his custom, he drove 
his father's cows to pasture ; but instead of returning 
home, he kept on his way to " Camp Schouler," at Lynn- 
field, and at once enlisted in Co. A, Seventeenth Regi- 
ment, giving his age as eighteen. For some time previous 
to this he had been in the habit of asking his father and 
mother, nearly every day, for their consent to his entering 
the service of his country. A negative answer was inva- 
riably given, until the day before he started for Lynnfield, 
when, in answer to the c[uestion, his father, half sportively 
and half in earnest, said " yes." This was enough, and 
George took the first opportunity that offered and started 
off on foot for the camp, eight miles distant. He was at 
this time captain of a boy's military company, organized 
a month or two previous, in which he took a great inter- 
est ; and undoubtedly his taste for military matters was 
enhanced by his experience in this company. 

He left the State with his regiment, which was assigned 
to the " Department of North Carolina," and served 
throughout its period of service with much honor to him- 



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self and his country. He was in the battles of " Kinston," 
" Whitehall " and " Goldsborough," besides many skir- 
mishes and long marches over the wretched and swampy 
roads, and almost impenetrable jungles of North Carolina. 

His comrades bear evidence that during his absence as 
a soldier he did not 'become addicted to any of the habits 
and vices which cursed so many ; but so straightforward 
and soldierly had been his career, that his colonel fre- 
quently recommended him for promotion. 

While at New Berne, he suffered severely at times with 
the fever and ague, and was also otherwise unwell ; but 
he remained at his post, fighting the good fight well, and 
performing every duty satisfactorily until his period of 
service expired, when he returned home, and was mustered 
out on the 3d of August, 1864; but he was never well. 
Comsumption had marked him for its victim. From the 
day of his muster-out he was never warm, suffering almost 
constantly from feeling cold until his death, which took 
place on the 30th of January, 1866. 

He was brevetted ist Lieutenant, Dec. 31, 1864, for 
gallant conduct and bravery displayed at the " Battle of 
Blount's Mills, "when, with a few others, he rushed out 
from the ranks and rescued Belger's Fifth Rhode Island 
Battery, which had become disabled and been left in 
the field between the two forces. Captain Bclger him- 
self having lost an arm, the horses being killed, and the 
battery abandoned. 



XIV. 



In Rebel Prisons. 



" The world's ear is full of cries from the land of rebel bar- 
barism, where starvation walked at the side of every captive, 
and suffering, despair and death sat at every prison door." 



"Andersonville"! "Belle Isle"! "Florence"! "Mil- 
len " ! Salisbury " ! Who that has had friends or rela- 
tives starved in these hideous "prison-pens," or that has 
read the story of those who have experienced and survived 
the systematic cruelty there practised by the rebel author- 
ities, — the " horrible and predetermined scheme, contrived 
for the purpose of depleting our armies and discouraging 
our soldiers," " to destroy them, or to disable them for 
further military service, or to compel our Government to an 
exchange on other than the terms to which it is in honor 
and by necessity committed," — does not shudder at men- 
tion of these names, so suggestive are they of brutality, 
sickness, disease, starvation, death, and almost every con- 
ceivable inhumanity ? It is impossible for any one to 
realize the amount of suffering and misery endured by 
Union men in these terrible places. 

After hearing the recital, or reading the account of one 
who has experienced this severe treatment, suffered its 
horrors, and has returned and told his story, the wonder 
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is that any one of the many thousands that have been 
there incarcerated ^ ever survived the fearful ordeal. But 
there are those, — and we have a few in our midst, — who 
lived through all and returned, and have related their suf- 
ferings, giving the world a picture of the misery and tor- 
ture endured by our men at the instigation of rebel leaders, 
whose names and memories will ever be accursed and stig- 
matized, be' they wandering up and down the face of the 
earth, or be they in their graves. 

Not many of our own citizens were destined to experi- 
ence these fearful sufferings, although at one time, Jan. i, 
1863, twenty-five (25) Melrose men, belonging to the Forty- 
Second Massachusetts Regiment, were taken prisoners at 
Galveston, Texas ; but this was before the extreme cruelty 
and barbarity toward our men, — the systematic determi- 
nation to let them perish from neglect, — was fully exer- 
cised, — although great suffering had then been endured by 
our men in more eastern prisons, — and they were treated 
comparatively well, being cared for, and as good and as 
much food given them as it was in the rebels' power to 
give ; and, after passing through Texas and Louisiana to 
the Mississippi River, by railroad and steamboat, with one 
foot-march of one hundred and twenty-five miles in five 
days, they were paroled, having been in the rebel author- 
ities' hands only about two months. 



* The number of Union prisoners held in the South during the Rebellion 
was 126,940. Of this number 22,576 died, or were starved to death. The 
first Union prisoner held by the rebels was John L. Worden, — who after- 
terwards commanded the " Monitor " in its encounter with the " Merri- 
mack," — who was kept in the common jail at Montgomery from A[)ril 15, 
1861, until Nov. II, and then exchanged. 



IN REBEL PRISONS. 187 

Besides these twenty-five {25) men, the following of our 
citizens have been prisoners of war : 

Henry H. Jones, George W. Batchelder, 

Archibald Bogle, Benjamin F. York, 

George E. Richardson, Frederick W. Krantz, • 

Albert W. Crockett, George W. Elliot, 

William H. Eastman, John E. Quinn, 

Edmund W. Davis, Henry Stone. 

Ten of these lived to return to their homes. Richard- 
son and Crockett were starved to death at "Salisbury" 
and " Andersonville." Sketches of them have appeared on 
a previous page. We now give short notices of the impris- 
onment of some of those who survived the fierce conflict 
with sickness and starvation. > 



HENRY H. JONES, 

of Co. A, Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment, was taken 
prisoner during the first day's fighting of the " Battle of 
Gettysburg," July i, 1863, and, after suftering eight 
months the horrors of rebel prisons, was exchanged, and 
rejoined his regiment in May 1864, just before the "Battle 
of Cool Arbor," during the final campaign under General 
Grant. 

From Gettysburg young Jones was taken to Staunton, 
Va., where, with between four and five thousand other 
prisoners, he remained six weeks, waiting transportation 
to Richmond ; to which place jDrisoners were finally car- 
ried on cattle cars. 

His first night in Richmond was spent in the famous — 
and //^famous — " Libby Prison " ; after which he was sent 



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to "Belle Isle," where commenced his sufferings, and 
where he remained until exchanged.^ 

Here he suffered the horrors and torments incident to 
this overcrowded, ill-fed and ill-treated body of prisoners. 
There were at times from ten to twelve thousand men 
congregated in this small space, — turned in like so many 
cattle, — to find what resting-place and comfort they could. 
When the least crowded, they could not have had a space 
for each man larger than three feet by nine. Here disease 
and death held high carnival. Thousands without tent or 
shelter of any kind ; through summer, fall and winter ; 
through torrid sun, rains and floods ; malarial fogs and 
sharp, cutting wmds ; covered with dirt and vermin ; 
" stripped of blankets and overcoats, hatless often, shoe- 
less often, in ragged coats and rotting shirts, they were 
obliged to take the weather as it came. Here and there 
a tent had a fire, and the inmates gathered round it, but 
the thousands outside shivered as the cold cut them to the 
bone, and huddled together for warmth and sympathy " ; 
"the cold froze them because they were hungry, — the 



' Belle Island is a small island in the James River, opposite the Tredegar 
Iron-works, and in full sight from the Libby windows. It has pretensions 
enough to beauty at a distant view to justify its name, as part of it is a bluff 
covered with trees. But the portion on which the prisoners are confined is 
low, sandy and barren, without a tree to cast a shadow, and poured upon 
by the burning rays of a Southern sun. Here is an enclosure, variously 
estimated to be from three to six acres in extent, surrounded by an earthwork 
about three feet high, with a ditch on either side. On the edge of the outer 
ditch, all round the enclosure, guards are stationed about forty feet apart, 
and keep watch there day and night. The interior has something of the look 
of an encampment, a number of Sibley tents being set in rows, with " streets" 
between. These tents, rotten, torn full of holes, — poor shelter at any rate, — 
accommodated only a small portion of the number who were confined within 
these low earth walls. — Report of Commitke to U. S. Sanitary Cowinisiion. 



IN REBEL PRISONS. 189 

hunger consumed them because they were cold." So 
severe was the treatment, that, according to the Confeder- 
ate Surgeon-General's quarterly report for the months of 
January, February and March, 1864, out of nearly twenty- 
eight hundred patients in the hospital, about fourteen 
hundred — half the number — died ! This is but a slight 
picture of the sufferings experienced in this and other 
rebel prisons. 

Jones was released from this scene of misery in April 
1864, and after his exchange was sent to Annapolis, 
Md., — then a rendezvous for exchanged prisoners, — 
where he remained, recuperating his nearly exhausted 
system, for six weeks ; after which he joined his regi- 
ment, went with it through the remaining period of its 
service, returned, and was mustered out, Aug. i, 1864. 
Some idea of the suffering he experienced can be imag- 
ined, not realized, when it is stated that when taken 
prisoner he weighed one hundred and fifty-eight pounds ; 
when he arrived at Annapolis he weighed ninety-five 
pounds. He still suffers from deafness and rheumatism, 
engendered by the cruel treatment received while in the 
hands of " our erring sisters." , 



ARCHIBALD BOGLE 

Went into the service in 1861 as 2d Lieutenant of Co. 
I, Seventeenth Massachusetts Regiment, was promoted 
1st Lieutenant, May 28, 1862, and discharged May 20, 
1863, to become Major of the Thirty-Fifth U. S. Colored 
Troops in General Wild's Brigade, then stationed in North 
Carolina. At the " Battle of Olustee," in Florida, Feb. 20, 
1864,^ he was left on the field, supposed to be dead, being 
severely wounded in bowels and leg. His colonel being 



190 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

absent, and the lieutenant-colonel being wounded, the 
command of the regiment devolved upon Major Bogle for 
five hours, during the hottest part of the strife. For distin- 
guished gallantry at this battle Major Bogle was published 
in General Orders, and in March following was brevetted 
Lieutenant -Colonel. As the "Olustee" battle-ground 
remained in the possession of the Confederates, Major Bogle 
fell into their hands and was taken, — notwithstariding he 
was an officer, and should have been taken to " Macon " or 
some other officer's prison, — to " Andersonville," where 
he experienced the horrors of that "prison-pen" for nine 
months. 

"Andersonville". was an open space, of twenty-five 
acres, in the shape of a parallelogram, sloping on both 
sides, without trees or shelter of any kind, and with a 
sandy soil over a bottom of clay. The fence was made of 
upright trunks of trees, about twenty feet high, near the 
top of which were small platforms, where the guards were 
stationed. Twenty feet inside and parallel to the fence 
was a light railing, forming the " dead-line," beyond which 
the projection of a foot or finger was sure to bring the 
deadly bullet of the sentinel. Here were crowded at times 
as many as twenty-eight thousand fellow -soldiers,^ — so 



' The " Battle of Olustee," or " Ocean Pond " was fought between 5,000 
Union Soldiers under General Seymour, and 10,000 Rebels under General 
Finnegan. Unionists compelled to retreat, leaving five guns, nearly six hun- 
dred stand of small arms, all its battery horses, and about one thousand two 
hundred killed and wounded on the field. Rebel loss nine hundred and 
thirty-five killed and wounded. 

* The Macon Journal and Messenger of the summer of- 1864 said that 
there were over 27,000 prisoners in Andersonville, and the deaths from fifty 
to sixty per day. By sworn testimony before the Commissioners of the 
" Sanitary Committee," it was proved that the average number of deaths in 
August, 1864, was over one hundred and thirty a day. Warren Lee Goss, 



IN KEBEL PRISONS. I9I 

crowded that it was difficult to move in any direction 
without jostling or being jostled. We cannot spare the 
space to give details of the condition of this prison ; of 
the utter disregard to all cleanliness and health of the pris- 
oners ; of the perfectly horrid state to which the swampy 
portion of the inside became. So wretched an appearance 
did it present that new comers on reaching it would 
exclaim, " Is this hell ? " yet they soon would become cal- 
lous, and enter unmoved the horrible rottenness. 

From this living death at " Andersonville," Major Bogle 
was successively removed to Millen, Savannah, Charleston, 
and Columbia, and was finally paroled at Wilmington, N. 
C, March i, 1865. He received the rank of Brevet-Colonel 
March 13, 1865. 

Colonel Bogle is honorably mentioned and interestingly 
spoken of, while at " Andersonville," in " The Soldier's 
Story of his captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and 
other Rebel Prisons," by Warren Lee Goss of the Second 
Massachusetts Regiment of Heavy Artillery. Mr. Goss 
was twice a prisoner in the hands of the rebels, wit- 
nessing and experiencing the things of which he speaks ; 
and if one desires to learn something of the sufferings 
through which our men passed, — although he says in 
conversation with the writer, that were he to tell the story 
with all its fiendish cruelties and barbarities, it would not 
be believed, — we advise them to read his volume, in 
which he "proposes to relate the tale of horrors experi- 



in his hook, — hereafter referred to, — says that " July and August of this 
year were the most terrible experienced by the general prisoners. In one 
day in August, no less than one hundred and sixty died. From the ist of 
February to the i6th of September, 12,000 Federal Soldiers, prisoners of 
war, were carried from the prison to the dead man's trench and the felon's 
burial." 



IQZ THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

enced in these prisons, without exaggeration." An extract 
from this sadly interesting book, relating to Col. Bogle, is 
here introduced. 

Understanding that there was a major of colored troops 
in prison, I hunted him up, and found Major Archibald Bogle, 
who was formerly, I believe, a Lieutenant in the Seventeenth Mas- 
sachusetts Infantry. He was captured at Olustee, after being 
severely wounded in several places. He informed me that he 
formerly lived in Melrose, Massachusetts. Since he came into 
the pen, he had been refused all medical and surgical treatment, 
though the prisoners detailed as hospital stewards had covertly 
afforded him aid, and dressed his wounds. He wore his uniform, 
and freely declared himself an officer of negro troops, — a fact 
which all officers of negroes were not willing to own, by reason 
of the hard treatment received therefor from the rebels. His 
was an instance of the fact that a true gentleman remains the 
same amidst the most squalid misery and accumulated misfor- 
tunes. His intercourse with others was dignified, courteous, and 
urbane, as if in command of his regiment. There were many 
in prison, as there always have been in our army, who professed 
to despise negro troops, and have a contempt for their officers. 
Major Bogle was at one time, I was informed, compelled to 
mess with his negroes ; yet he always maintained his gentle- 
manly bearing and his self-respect, and commanded the respect 
of others amid all the accumulated misery of the " prison-pen," 
Such were my impressions of Major Bogle. 

Many loose statements have been made in print indicating 
that officers were as common among prisoners at Andersonville, 
as enlisted men. With the exception of Major Bogle, there were 
no commissioned officers intentionally placed in Andersonville. 
Others were there by their own act ; but the prison was intended 
for enlisted men only. At any time an officer of white troops 
could be sent to Macon, or some other officers' prison, by 
merely making a plain statement of facts which looked plau- 



IN REBEL PRISONS. I93 

sible. So much is required to be said, as there seems to be a 
great misunderstanding in relation to this matter ; and it is my 
desire to write such a description of the prison tliat tliose who 
were prisoners at the time with myself will be the ones most 
ready to testify to the truth of these pictures, crudely drawn 
with pen and ink. Major Bogle at one time was engaged in a 
tunnelling operation, in which he plotted to release all the pris- 
oners of the stockade. It failed through the treason of some 
one in the secret, though it came near being a success. About 
the time I became acquainted with him, an extensive plot was 
formed to break the stockade. Over two thousand men were 
pledged to risk their lives upon an effort to liberate the prison- 
ers of the stockade. Here seemed the choice before us, to die 
without an effort, amid all the misery of the "prison-pen," or to 
die with our hands uplifted to strike one blow at our enemies, 
before death, in an attempt to liberate ourselves and starving 
comrades. To no reasonable man did there appear at that 
time to be any hope for life but in that manner. I went into 
the project, I am willing to confess at this day, having full confi- 
dence in our ability to achieve the desired result, and with a 
feeling that it was better to die in such an attempt than to die a 
miserable, loathsome death by gradual starvation. 

Acting in concert, we set ourselves at work, and dug tunnels 
up to the stockade ; then the tunnel branched off at right angles, 
running parallel with the stockade, a shoulder of earth being 
left as a temporary support, so that when a rush was made 
against the wall from the outside, it would be thrown down in 
the places thus mined. In this manner three portions of the 
stockade walls were undermined, — at least, I have reason to 
suppose so, although I was engaged in digging and engineering 
on but one of them. Our plans were as follows : One detach- 
ment of prisoners was to break through on the south side, near 
the gate, and capture the reserve of the guard ; another to break 
through on the north side, and, making a circuit of the stockade, 
capture the guard thereon ; another party, breaking through on 

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194 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

the south-west side, near the gate, was to capture the rebel artil- 
lery near headquarters, and use it according to circumstances, 
and make such capture of rebel officers as was possible ; while 
prisoners outside, under detail, were to cut the telegraph wires. 
This achieved, prisoners were to be liberated, rations equally 
distributed, the cars seized, ammunition and arms placed in the 
hands of the " organization," and then, raiding through the rebel 
country, seize upon horses and other modes of transportation, 
and effect an escape to the Gulf. Such were our plans generally. 
All was pronounced ready for the grand assault, and we were 
waiting with trembling expectancy, when a proclamation was 
read in prison, and posted in conspicuous places, stating that 
such a plan was known to be organized, and the commandant 
of the prison had full knowledge of all its details, even to the 
names of those concerned; and that, if we persisted in carrying 
it out, there would be great bloodshed, which he wished to avert 
Such, in substance, was a proclamation signed by Henry Wirz. 
We had been betrayed by one who, we supposed, from every 
motive of interest, would keep the secret. Artillery was posted 
at various points, with men in position to use it : twice shots 
were fired over the heads of prisoners in crowds, while white 
flags were placed all over the prison, as ranges for the artil- 
lerists. Thus ended the best-conceived plan for liberating the 
prisoners en masse during my imprisonment, and proved the 
assertion frequently made among the Kentucky boys, that, 
*' Everything in the Confederacy was drefiful onsartain, and liable 
to bust" 



WILLIAM H. EASTMAN, 

of Nims' Second Battery was taken prisoner at Bayou 
Boeuf, June i8, 1863, while the army was on the march to 
" Port Hudson," — he, with others, having been left behind 
in charge of sick horses belonging to the battery. As our 
army moved forward, the rebel army followed, taking what 



IN REBEL PRISONS. 1 C)5 

spoils and prisoners it could. Eastman was taken to 
Brashear City, where he was held only about a fortnight, 
and then paroled and sent within the Union lines, where he 
arrived just before the fall of '• Port Hudson." He was not 
exchanged until the following November, and during the 
intermediate time he acted as clerk for the Provost Marshal 
of one of the Louisiana Districts. During the short time 
he was in the hands of the Rebels, his treatment was com- 
paratively good, and he escaped without suffering the 
tortures of an " Andersonville " or a " Salisbury." 



JOHN L. CHAMBERS. 

Acting Master's Mate, John L. Chambers, although 
living in East Boston at the time he entered the service, 
was a citizen of Melrose before the war, and has been since 
his return ; therefore, a short sketch of his imprisonment 
is here introduced, notwithstanding his name did not count 
on our quotas. It was, by far, the longest imprisonment 
suffered by any of our citizens, being over two years in 
duration. 

Mr. Chambers was appointed Acting Master's Mate, 
August 15, 1862, and ordered on board the gunboat 
" Albatross." In September, while at Ship Island, he was 
transferred to the ship " Morning Light," — Acting Master 
John Dillingham in command, — which was on blockading 
duty on the coast of Louisiana and Texas. She had an 
armament of eight long 32-pound guns and a rifled Butler 
gun, with a crew of eighty-four men, all told. In No- 
vember, 1862, she was ordered on duty off Sabine Pass. 
On the morning of the 21st of January, 1863, — a consort, 
the schooner "Velocity," which carried two twelve-pound 
howitzers, being also then on duty, — when four miles 



19^) THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

from shore, and in a perfect calm, these vessels were 
attacked by two river boats, which had been converted 
into cotton-clad Rebel gunboats ; they were the " John 
Bell" which carried a 64-pound rifled cannon, and the 
" Uncle Ben," with two twelve-pounders, and with five 
hundred sharp-shooters on board, all under the command 
of Major O. M. Watkins. Although the "Morning Light" 
had the heaviest armament, yet she failed to keep the 
Rebel steamers at a distance, and, approaching within a 
thousand yards they poured in a terrific and constant fire ; 
and after a fight which lasted about two hours and a half, 
both vessels surrendered, with a loss of five killed and 
fifteen wounded. The prisoners were first taken to Sabine 
City, thence to Houston, where they were imprisoned in 
a large warehouse. About ninety men were confined in 
the room with Chambers, which was about one hundred 
feet square. But the treatment here was not severe, the 
men being allowed two hours each day for walking, under 
a guard of twelve men. 

About the last of April, the officers of the " Morning 
Light," together with those of the " Harriet Lane " and 
the " Forty-Second Massachusetts Regiment," taken pris- 
oners at the "Battle of Galveston," Jan. i, 1863, — twenty- 
two in all, — were sent to Huntsville, where for three days, 
by order of the rebel authorities, they were confined in the 
cells of its State Prison. These cells were anything but 
inviting places of abode, being about eight feet by five, 
and overrun with cockroaches and overbrooded with mos- 
quitoes. But by the kindness of Colonel Caruthers, the 
Superintendent, they were released from these close 
quarters and given a large upper room, which was fitted 
up and made comfortable for them. 

Here Chambers remained until the 27th of June, when 
he, with the rest of the officers, was ordered to " Camp 



IN REBEL PRISONS. . I97 

Groce," seventy miles southwest from Himtsville, on the 
" Houston and Navasota Railroad," to which place the 
crews of the " Morning Light " and the " Velocity " had 
been previously sent. "Camp Groce" was first a camp 
of instruction for the Rebels, but afterwards was turned 
into a "prison-pen" or "corral." It consisted of four 
stacks of barracks surrounding an area, beyond which a 
tract of wild country, wood, swamp and prairie, stretched 
for miles around. It was under a guard of from sixty to 
eighty men, commanded by a fat officer known as " Cap- 
tain Buster." Among the officers now congregated at 
" Camp Groce " were Colonel Isaac S. Burrill and Surgeon 
A. I. Cummings of the " Forty-Second Massachusetts," 
Colonel A. J. H. Duganne,^ of the " One Hundred and 
Seventy-Sixth New York," and many others taken at 
Galveston, Sabine Pass, and other points in Texas. In 
" Camp Groce " Chambers remained until the 9th of 
December following, and during this time much sickness 
had prevailed, and many deaths had taken place, one of 
which was that of Surgeon Cummings. Nov. 20th, Cham- 
bers and three hundred other prisoners were paroled, and 
ordered to dispose of all superfluous clothing, bedding and 
baggage, and prepare for a march to Shrevesport, Louisi- 
ana, about three hundred miles distant, for the purpose of 
being exchanged. Up to this time the Rebel authorities 
had transported for the prisoners all bedding, baggage, 
etc., and they had received comfortable care, with good 
beef and corn-bread rations ; but now this kindness ceased 
and from this time the ill-treatment and sufferings of 



' Author of " A History of Governments," " Footprints of Heroism," 
" War in Europe," " Battle Ballads," " Twenty Months in the Department 
of the Gulf," etc. 



198 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

Chambers increased. This march to Shrevesport was 
about three hundred and thirty miles in length, and 
occupied twenty-one days ; passing through Anderson, 
Huntsville, Crockett, Palestine, Kickapoo, and Tyler. 
Near the last town is situated "Camp Ford," now left 
behind, but which was yet destined to receive these disap- 
pointed prisoners. When within ten miles of Shrevesport, 
and near Marshall, La., they were ordered to halt and 
encamp in the woods near " Four Mile Spring." Here 
amid rain and snow and very severe weather they suffered 
great hardships. In the morning orders came not to 
exchange, and a "camp" was ;nade near by in an open 
field, where, without shelter, they remained amid much 
suffering and many privations about three months. In 
March they were ordered back to " Camp Ford," one 
hundred miles distant. This march was accomplished in 
three days, and with terrible suffering, tracks of blood 
being left in many cases ; in such condition were the pris- 
oners, and so severe the treatment. One sad incident of 
this march deserves mentioning. There were two brothers 
among the prisoners, one of whom was taken sick during 
the march, and died just before bivouacking for the night. 
The officer in command would not allow the brother to 
remain and bury the body, but compelled him to march 
on with the rest ; but at night, after they had encamped, 
the guards, more humane than the officer, went back and 
buried him. Chambers was not in this severe march, but 
from the camp near "Four Mile Spring" was sent, with 
twenty other sick prisoners, to Shrevesport, where he 
remained until May 28th, when he was sent back to 
" Camp Ford," together with a hundred and fifty other 
prisoners that had been gathered from different sources. 
" Camp Ford," the " Andersonville " of Texas, was situ- 



IN REBEL PRISONS. I99 

ated four miles from the town of Tyler, and consisted of a 
space of six acres, enclosed with a stockade of timbers 
eight feet high. One-sixth of this area was allotted to the 
officers, who dwelt in log huts and cabins of various shajoes, 
erected by themselves or purchased of former tenants ; while 
the rest of the area was occupied by the other prisoners, who 
burrowed under ground, or erected booths of branches, 
and arranged every conceivable contrivance for a shelter. 
In April, during the " Red River Expedition," under 
General Banks, eleven hundred and eighty-six Federal pris- 
oners, captured at the " Battle of Mansfield," April 8, 
1864, were brought to "Camp Ford" at one time. Many 
others were added at subsequent times, so that at the time 
Chambers entered the "Camp," May 28th, there were 
congregated as many as forty-seven hundred prisoners, 
three hundred of whom were officers. The rations for 
much of the time consisted of corn meal, — cob and all 
ground up, and generally musty at that ; often whole corn, 
without grinding, was given them. With this kind of food, 
insufficient clothing, and such general ill-treatment, it is 
not strange that there were many deaths. From May i, 
to Dec. I, 1864, there were two hundred and thirty-two 
deaths in the " Camp." ^ It was a constant boast with the 
guard, as they went on duty, that they would " shoot a 



' A very good picture of life at " Camp Ford," as then experienced, is 
given in the following letter written by the Confederate Post-Surgeon. 

Tyler, Texas, June 14, 1864. 
Surgeon J. M. Hayden, Chf. Med. Bureau, T. M. D. 

Sir : — In obedience to orders, I reported to the officer in command of the camp of Fed- 
eral prisoners at this place (Colonel Anderson), who immediately placed me on duty, as 
surgeon in charge. I at once set about examining the sanitary condition of the stockade, and 
although my mind was prepared by representations to meet with abundant materials for dis- 
ease, it fell far short of the reality. The enclosed ground is entirely too small for the number 



200 THE MEI.ROSF. MEMORIAL. 

Yank to-day," and often, without any provocation wliat- 
ever, would a prisoner be sliot down. Many were thus 
killed during his imprisonment. Notwithstanding all 
these disheartening circumstances, the Fourth of July, 
1864, was duly celebrated by the reading of a poem, of 
the Declaration of Independence, and the delivery of an 
oration, interspersed with national airs by a glee club. 
When the weather permitted, much of the time it being 
very wet, evening meetings were held, conducted by the 
chaplains present. During all this time the hope of being 
exchanged was'constantly entertained, fed by rumors, and 
the fact that occasionally squads of two or three hundred 
were sent away for that purpose. 

Yankee ingenuity developed itself wonderfully at " Camp 
Ford," and a great variety of articles were manufactured. 



of men, (over 4.500), and it woiikl be impossible to make them healthy in such a crowded con- 
dition. The filth and offal have been deposited in the streets and between the quarters, from 
which arises horrible stench. A great number of the enlisted men have no quarter nor 
shelter, and have to sleep out on the ground, without even a blanket to cover them. Some of 
the sick are thus situated, and I am making preparations to provide for their wants and to 
make them comfortable. We have a hospital in course of erection, and will need bedding 
very much. The popular prejudice here is so strong against them that I can get no facilities 
from the people. I have sent to you for approval the requisition which I would have sent 
directly to the Medical Purveyor, but I thought your signature would be necessary. I am 
ready to receive into hospital a few, if we had the articles, and they are not to be had here. No 
regular register of cases or deaths has been kept, up to a recent period, but I visited the grave- 
yard and counted twenty-five graves, a much smaller number than I was led to believe. * * • 
Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

F. W. MEAGHER. 

The following notice was also found posted one morning : 

Hereafter any Federal prisoner, being detected in trying to make his escape from the prison, 
— either in the act, or after he has made his escape, — will be shot by the one capturing him. 
By order of 

Lieutenant-Colonel J. P. BOKDERB, 

LonuVg Camp Ford Prison. 
B. W. McEACHAN, 

L ieutejiant and A ding A djutant. 



IN REBEL PRISONS. 201 

With a half-dozen axes and hatchets, three spades, a dull 
saw and their jack-knives, the prisoners contrived to mul- 
tiply tools, and erect machinery, by means of which musical 
instruments, rakes, hoes, bedsteads, tables, chessmen, pipes, 
and very many other useful and ornamental articles were 
manufactured; and iii this manner many weary hours of 
imprisonment were whiled away. While here Chambers 
contrived to make a very fine and complete model of the 
ship " Morning Light." ^ 

A newspaper was also established, called " The Old 
Flag," printed with pen and pencil, containing a variety 
of advertisements and literary emanations, and circulated 
among the prisoners. 

Thus was this long imprisonment passed, amid many 
privations, much suffering, sickness, and death; but the 
long looked for and long deferred hour at length arrived. 
On the 3d of March, with three hundred other prisoners, 
Chambers was marched to the mouth of the Red River, 
and on the twenty-sixth day of March, 1865, having been 
in the hands of the Confederates two years, two months, 
and five days, he was exchanged and sent to New Orleans ; 
thence up the Mississippi River, home. 



EDMUND WALLACE DAVIS. 

Enlisted in Co. G, Twenty-Second Massachusetts Reg- 
iment, in 1 86 1, and was taken prisoner at the "Battle of 
Gaines' Farm " or " Gaines' Mills," June 27, 1862. He was 



' Colonel Uuganne in his "Twenty Months in the Department of the 
Gulf," while enumerating the characteristics of some of his co-prisoners, thus 
refers to Chambers : " The ingenious Chambers whose model of the ' Morn- 
ing Light ' was a trophy of Yankee naval architecture." 
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202 THE MKI.ROSE MEMORIAL.. 

first carried to " Libby Prison," and afterwards to " Belle 
Isle," but was held only about six weeks, when he was 
exchanged and sent into the union lines ; consequently 
his sufferings, as a prisoner, were of short duration ; but 
the heart disease, with which he had been suffering, was 
aggravated by the treatment received while in the hands 
of the Rebels, and he was discharged from the service soon 
after his exchange. He died at Melrose, July 22, 1864. 

Davis was one of five brothers that served in the Union 
army. Loami G. was in the Thirty-Third and Third 
Heavy Artillery Regiments ; John E. and James L. were 
in the Forty-Second Regiment ; Charles L. in the Eighth 
Maine Regiment ; and Edmund W. in the Twenty-Second 
Massachusetts Regiment. We had no other instance 
where one family furnished five persons for the army, but 
we had two other families that furnished four ; Martin and 
York, as follows : George T. Martin was in the Thirty- 
Eighth and Fourth Heavy Artillery Regiments ; William 
H. in the Thirty-Eighth Regiment ; Charles H. in the 
Fourth Heavy Artillery ; and Jeremiah, Jr., in the Navy. 
Benjamin F. York was in the Fifty-Sixth Regiment ; 
Josiah R. and William B. were in the Forty-Second ; and 
Arthur, Jr., was in the Twelfth New Hampshire Regi- 
ment. 

Several families furnished three members for different 
periods of service, viz: Shelton, Macey, Emerson, — a 
father and two sons ; Peabody, — a father and two sons ; 
Wyman and McLaughlin. Many families gave us two 
members ; viz : Anderson, Barry, Barron, Crockett, 
Dawes, P'uller, Grover, Howard, Ireson, Lynde ; two 
families two each, — Morse, Marshall, — father and son, 
— McAllister, Nichols, and Ouinn. 



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FREDERICK W. KRANTZ. 

When the Rebellion broke out Krantz was in the U. S. 
Navy, having enlisted in 1859 for three years; he was dis- 
charged at Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 24, 1861. In July, 
1862, he enlisted in Co. C, Thirty-Third Regiment. After 
the " Battle of Gettysburg " was fought and won, while our 
army was pursuing General Lee, he became foot-sore, 
and, with others, was left behind the army to follow as 
best he could, when he was taken prisoner by Stuart's 
Cavalry. He was carried to a tobacco warehouse about 
two miles from Piankatank Point, between the Potomac 
and Rappahannock Rivers. Here he suffered the usual 
hard treatment allotted our prisoners, being sick a long 
while with fever and ague ; but, after an imprisonment of 
seven months, he made his escape in the night and reached 
Washington, Feb. 3, 1864. He returned to his home in 
Melrose, and, after recruiting his health during a furlough of 
two months, was returned to his regiment, then encamped 
in Lookout Valley, P^ast Tennessee. After taking part in 
nearly all the engagements of the " great march to the 
sea," under General Sherman, he w^as again taken prisoner 
by Rebel cavalry, while on a foraging expedition. He was 
taken to the prison at Salisbury, N. C, where he remained 
suffering the horrors and tortures of that place, until just 
before the fall of Richmond, when he was removed to 
" Libby Prison," and after a delay of two weeks was paroled 
and sent to City Point, where he arrived, once more under 
the old flag, on the day Richmond was evacuated. He 
was sent to Annapolis, and soon after discharged and sent 
home. 

The following extract from the " Congregationalist and 
Recorder" gives a slight idea of some of the experiences 
passed through by our prisoners while at " Andersonville." 



204 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

It is from the description of a visit made in April, 1868, 
by the Rev. C. L. Woodworth, who was Chaplain of the 
Twenty-Seventh Massachusetts Regiment, two hundred 
and fifty members of which had been inmates of this 
" prison-pen." 

After speaking- of the insiifificiency of water allowed our 
prisoners, received from a small brook running through 
the enclosure, which in summer " could have been little 
more than a mere drizzle from the swamps around," and 
that within bow-shot was " a creek of beautiful, unfailing 
water, twenty feet wide, and three feet deep, which would 
have made prison-life almost a joy," of the forests of wood 
near at hand, and only one stick a day allowed for a squad 
of fifty men, and of the evidences of the many attempts at 
"mining out" made by our men, he says: 

One can give no account of bis feelings as he wanders over 
these accursed acres, and sees everywhere traces of the unfortu- 
nate occupants. The debris of cabins, chimneys, fire-places, 
ovens, holes in the hill-side, are among the painful evidences of 
the battle they fought for comfort and life. The side-hill on 
the north, is burrowed all over, and reminds one of a sand 
bank honey-combed witii swallows' holes. Some of these under- 
ground excavations were quite spacious, and might hold a score, 
while others are so small that not more than one could have 
occupied them at a time. The tops of the larger ones have 
mostly fallen in, softened by the rain. Indeed, it was no uncom- 
mon thing during a rainy night for some one or more of them 
to cave in and bury the sleepers. Quite a number of lives, it is 
said, were lost in this way. 

But that which most forcibly reminds one of the terrible strug- 
gle which tiic men bad for simple comfort, is the wells which 
they dug in search of water. Forty of these are still in exist- 
ence, and some of them as fresh as if dug but yesterday. In a 



ANDERSONVILLE PRISON. 2O5 

number of instances they went down eighty feet, but in nearly 
every case failed to find the coveted treasure. One marvels 
how they could have dug them' without tools of any sort, using 
simply their fingers, and bringing up the dirt in the pockets of 
their blouses, or in their caps, or handkerchiefs. Had I not 
seen the wells, and waited some moments for a stone, that I 
dropped in to strike the bottom, I could not have believed it. 
How consuming the thirst which could impel to such labors ! 
Until near the close of the war there was only one structure 
inside the stockade, — that was a small, rough building used by 
the Quartermaster, — where were weighed, and from whence 
were issued the scanty rations that our men fought over like 
famished dogs. I saw the platform, and a part of the scales on 
which this starvartion diet was balanced to the nicety of death. 

It was after the attention of the civilized world had been 
directed to the barbarity practised on our prisoners, that the 
confederate government put up within the stockade, both at the 
northern and at the southern end, five large sheds of a hundred 
feet in length, simply covered at the top ; the sides all open 
like a depot wood-house. These were better than nothing, but 
in storm and cold, were a poor protection for weak, starving 
men, and miserably inadequate for all. 

South of the main stockade a hundred and fifty yards or so, 
was the hospital stockade. Within this were twenty-two of 
these long, low sheds, from which fifteen thousand martyred 
souls went up to God. The day I visited this ground was hazy 
and sultry, and I imagined the air was stifling from the boding 
horrors which eveiy object suggested. Could I forget that only 
a little time ago these sheds were filled with sick, pale, famished, 
wasted men, that every hour out of the twenty-four, the dead- 
cart carried, at least, two, oft times six, lifeless bodies to the 
trenches ! 

Seven forts and earthworks commanded the prison, and made 
all thouglit of resistance hopeless. Escape, therefore, was a 
thing which depended entirely on the cunning and craft of 



206 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

the individual man. Mining out was a favorite method ; a 
few scaled the stockade. Some ran the guard, and others, 
who had passes to cut wood, bring water, or bury a comrade, 
forgot to return. But this constant attempt to outwit, and elude 
their keepers, was met on their part with a weapon of warfare 
known only in the South, and up to this time practised only on 
negroes, and escaped Yankee prisoners. I refer, of course, to 
hounds that were kept to track and hunt down the fugitives. 
There were three block-houses, just west of the stockade, where 
the hunters and the hounds were quartered. Only one of the 
houses is now standing, and this will soon disappear, for every 
relic hunter is sure to carry a piece of it away. The stories told 
by the colored people of the horrid exploits of the hounds, — 
human and inhuman, — in running down our boys, is enough 
to make one's flesh creep. I have no heart to put a single one 
of them on paper. 

We cannot better close these notices of the sufferings 
of our heroes in these wretched spots, than to give an 
extract from a letter by a correspondent of the " American 
Missionary," dated Atlanta, Ga., May 13, 1867, showing, 
as it does, the great change in the use to which "Ander- 
sonville " is now consecrated : 

Did they ever imagine, those rebel officers, who used our 
poor boys to erect those buildings — buildings put up to enable 
them to hold thirty thousand prisoners in unheard of tortures — 
did they ever imagine to what use those buildings were to be 
applied, and so soon ? Did they dream that the wail of the 
captive would sfcarcely be hushed, and the last victim laid to 
sleep his last sleep in those awful witness-bearing trenches, 
before two angels of mercy should take their abode there, 
transforming that«hell upon earth into a little earthly heaven ? 
Yes, " Andersonville " has been cleansed and sanctified ; and, 
thank God, by the purity, the presence, the labor, and the 



ANDF.RSONVII.I.E l>RISON. 207 

love Of woman. Where the rebel soldier's jeer and oath 
used to be heard, now daily ascends the sweet sound of 
prayer and praise. For the howl of the hungry hound, eager 
to chase the perishing Union fugitive, you may now hear The 
sweet voices of the children blending in song. The jailer has 
fled haunted by the memory of his crimes (for Wirz was not alone 
in the charge), and two gentle women have taken possession of 
h.s dwelhng ; the persecuted slave has found a shelter in the huts 
erected by his persecutors, and the Freedman's corn is now 
growmg ni the empty stockade. 

One of the ladies referred to above, says in the same 
paper : 

You would scarcely know the place were you to come here 
now. The trees are heavy with the wealth of folia-^e the air 
resonant with the sweet song of birds, and odorout ;ith the 
breath of flowers. But the stockade with its silent tale of suf 
fenng, and the cemetery, with its quiet sleepers, are still here 
Andersonvjlle"will ever be to me a memory'of sufferilra 
home of dead heroes, a planting of freedom's seed. I am c^lad to 
have been here, glad of the record we shall leave - I onfv wish 
n were moi-e glorious with fruit; but one soweth, and another 
reapeth I am content with sowing, and with the evidence of 
life in the seed. It is germinating ; already the mellowed soil 
IS breakn.g from the struggles of the embryo which wants li^ht 
and air. We have but to lay our ear to the earth, to hear the 
swelling and the struggling of the new life beneath. A few 
more rains of love, a few more dews of mercy, a few more 
suns of grace, and the blade will appear; after that, the goin^ 
on from strength to strength, till the harvest time shall come'' 
Oh ! It has been good to work here. I thank God for it and 
the rich experience it has brought ! 



XV. 

1865- 

Close of the Rebellion. 

Oh, beautiful ! my country ! ours once more ! 
Smoothing thy gold of war-dishevelled hair 
O'er such sweet brows as never others wore, 

And letting thy set lips 

Freed from wrath's pale eclipse. 
The rosy edges of their smile lay bare. 
What words divine of lover or of poet 
Could tell our love and make thee know it, 
Among the nations bright beyond compare ? 

What were our lives without thee .'' 

What all our lives to save thee ? 

We reck not what we gave thee ; 

We will not dare to doubt thee. 
But ask whatever else, and we will dare ! 

yames Russell Lowell. 

In the "Life of Abraham Lincoln," by Dr. J. G. Hol- 
land, — "Timothy Titcomb," — occurs the following vivid 
passage relative to the fall of Richmond : 

The day on which Richmond fell will long be remembered 
by the people of America, in both sections of the country. When 
the news was made public on Monday, — April 3, 1865", — the 
whole North was thrown into a frenzy of joyous excitement. 
Every bell on every public building, from the Atlantic to the 
Pacific was rung for hours. Cannon answered to cannon, from 



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CLOSE OF THE REBELLION. 209 

mountain to mountain, and from valley to valley. Men grasped 
one another's hands in the streets, and wept, or embraced each 
other in the stress of their joyous enthusiasm. Public meetings 
were called, at which the deeds of the gallant heroes who had 
won the decisive victories were praised and cheered, and the 
public exultation found expression in speech and music. Noth- 
ing like it was ever seen upon the continent. The war was 
over. Richmond, that had so long defied the national authority 
and resisted the national arms, was ours. The rebel President 
and his associates were fugitives. Lee's array was running 
away, and Grant was pursuing them. The sun of peace had 
fairly risen. The incubus of war that had pressed upon the 
nation's heart for four long, weary years, was lifted ; and the 
nation sprang to its feet, with all possible demonstrations of 
joyous exultation. 

Melrose joined with much enthusiasm in these demon- 
strations over the joyful termination of this great struggle. 
Upon the receipt of the telegram, 

Richmond and Petersburg are ours. A tliird part of Lee's 
army is destroyed. For the remainder there is no escape, 

there was great rejoicing ; the bells were rung, flags hoisted, 
houses illuminated in the evening, and a display of fire- 
works ; and a general congratulation over this long wished 
for event. A concert, given on the same evening by the 
"Melrose Musical Association," under the direction of Mr. 
Andrew J. Morse, was closed with patriotic airs, and cheers 
for General Grant and his noble army. 

This great and universal joy was augmented six days 
later, April gth, by the news of General Lee's surrender 
to General Grant, at " Appomattox Court House." 

The culmination was now reached, and rebellion crushed. 
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THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Henceforth Peiice was to take the place of War. Tlie time 
had come when 

" They shall boat their swonls into ploughshares, and their 
spears into pruning hooks." 

lUit this great gladness was very soon turned into the 
deepest mourning bv the ileath o\ ouv beloved president, 
Abraham I>incolu, who died only six days after Lee's sur- 
render, — April 15. 1S65, — by the hand of an assassin. 

Governor Andrew communicated this sad intelligence 
to the Massachusetts Legislature, April 17th, commencing 
his address as follows : 

In the midst of the exultations of repeated victory, in the 
niiilst of the highest hopes, of the most auspicious omens, in 
the hour of universal joy, ihe nation passed at onee, by an in- 
scrutable and mysterious rrovidence, into the Valley of the 
Shadow of Death. Assembled while the eknul is yet thick upon 
our eves, and the hearts oi' men are oppressed by the sense of a 
strange dismav, it has become my mournful duty to record, by 
formal and othcial announcement to the Legislative department 
ot" the Commonwealth, this calamitous and tiisttessing event. 

The da\- oi the funeral, Wednesday, April 19th, was a 
day of general mourning throughout the land. Business 
w'as entirely suspended antl funeral ceremonies were every- 
where held. Churches were thrown open, and music, 
praver. and eulogv testified to the nation's great loss. 

In Melrose, a united service was held in the Congre- 
gational Chmvh, which was appropriately draped in 
mourning. This was a deeply interesting occasion, and 
the exercises were as toUows : 



L ILVN r. 



1. 



I'hv Will lie Done." 



FUNFRAI. n.RKMONIFS. 211 

Invocation and Rkading of the Scriptures. 

liY RKV. WILLIAM S. HARNKS, 
III. 

Hymn. 
See, gracious God ! before thy throne 

Thy mourning people bend ; 
'T is on thy sovereign grace alone 

Our humble hopes depend. 

Dark, frowning judgments from thy hand 

Thy dreadful power display ; 
Yet mercy spares this guilty land. 

And still we live to pray. 

How changed, alas ! are truths divine, 

For error, guilt and shame ! 
What impious numbers, bold in sin, 

Disgrace the Christian name ! 

Oh, turn us, turn us, mighty Lord, 

By thy resistless grace ; 
Then shall our hearts obey thy word, 

And humbly seek thy face. 

IV. 

Prayer, 

by rev. henry baker. 

V. 

Hymn. 

God moves in a mysterious way, 

His wonders to perform ; 
He plants his footsteps in the sea, 

And rides upon the storm. 



2 1 2 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

Deep in unfathomable mines 

Of never-failing skill, 
He treasures up his bright designs, 

And works his sovereign will. 

Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take : 
The clouds ye so much dread 

Are big with mercy, and shall break 
In blessings on your head. 

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense. 
But trust Him for his grace : 

Behind a frowning providence 
He hides a smiling face. 

His purposes will ripen fast, 
Unfolding every hour ; 

The bud may have a bitter taste, 
But sweet will be the flower. 

Blind unbelief is sure to err. 
And scan his work in vain ; 

God is his own interpreter. 
And He will make it plain. 

VI. 

Address. 

BY REV. WILLIAM S. BARNES. 

VII. 
Address. 

BY REV. HENRY BAKER. 
VIII. 

Anthem. 

"REST, SPIRIT, REST." 



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FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 2I3 

IX. 

Address. 

BY REV. HENRY A. STEVENS. 

X. 

Prayer. 

by rev. william s. barnes. 

XL 

Hymn. 

My country, 'tis of thee, 
Sweet land of Liberty, 

Of thee I sing : 
Land where my fathers died. 
Land of the pilgrim's pride. 
From every mountain side 

Let freedom ring ! 

My native countiy, thee — 
Land of the noble free — 

Thy name I love : 
I love thy rocks and rills. 
Thy woods and templed hills ; 
My heart with rapture thrills 

Like that above. 

Let Music swell the breeze. 
And ring from all the trees 

Sweet freedom's song ! 
Let mortal tongues awake ; 
Let all that breathe partake ; 
Let rocks their silence break — 

The sound prolong ! 



2 14 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

Our father's God ! to Thee, 
Author of liberty, 

To Thee we sing : 
Long may our land be bright 
With freedom's holy light ; 
Protect us by thy might, 

Great God, our King ! 

XII. 

Benediction, 
by rev. henry a. stevens. 

Owing to the length of the programme, the remarks by 
Messrs. Barnes and Stevens were quite short ; the principal 
address being made by Rev. Mr. Baker, of which the fol- 
lowing is an abstract. 

I would rather have been a silent listener amid the univer- 
sal sadness of this hour ! The stillness of these draped walls, 
the sombre flags of a thousand cities at half-mast, and their 
countless avenues hung with symbols of deepest woe ; the 
silent tread of the millions of mourners, and the tinivosal sadness 
unspeakable, welling up from a nation's heart, all speak louder 
than words the sad consciousness of our terrible bereavement. 
But not only our own native land, but if angels are interested 
in the affairs of earth, and carry tidings from continent to conti- 
nent, and sphere to sphere, the great heart of humanity every- 
where bleeds to-day ! The down-trodden of every land will shed 
a tear, for a great, a good man ; humanity's universal friend has 
rudely fallen. A man peculiarly honest, for he had earned the 
enviable name of " Honest Abe." A man paterJial, for we 
loved to call him Father Abraham. A thoughtful, sober, frank, 
sincere, sagacious, far-seeing, common peopli^s man, that you and 
I had learned to love. 

A man of deep religious faith, that dared to trust in God. A 



I 



REV. HENRY BAKER's ADDRESS. 21 5 

man that recognized i\\Q providence of God. Leaving Springfield 
for the great duties which tlie nation had imposed upon him, 
how fully he seemed to realize his great responsibilities, as 
bidding them an affectionate farewell, he says, "pray for me !" 
And in our sad, dark struggles, with his terse, affectionate proc- 
lamations, he summons the afflicted millions to fastings, and 
then in triumph to thanksgivings and to praise. 

Amid all his public trials and anxieties^ affliction hovered 
around his own home^ and his darling child is borne to the grave. 
His soul listened to the voice divine that thus seemed to speak 
from eternity. On the fields of Gettysburg, weeping over the 
slaughtered thousands of our fallen heroes, and the deep 
depravity of human hearts, he there resolved personally to give 
himself to Christ. From that hour he was a practical Christian. 

The first hours of every day, while others slept, he read God's 
word and bowed in prayer. This was his custom. Who of us 
so noble and so pure. Who can offset so many virtues, to their 
faults so few ? 

" Who of us have borne our faculties so meek, as he who has 
been so clear in his great office, that his virtues will plead like 
angels irumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of his 
taking-off ? " Oh how foul that malignant spirit that struck at 
our nation's heart ! Do we not now see it, " the sum of all 
villanies '' ? Ay, how base this monster evil ! How like the 
hydrophobia it infects with its own vile spirit its own victims. 
How it butchered at Lacorcnce, and starved at Andersonville and 
Libby. Look upon the already idiotic starvelings of " Anderson 
Stockade," those brave patriots, and hear the coward tyrants 
declare to them, " If we can't whip you, we can starve you to 
death!" One million subscription is opened in Alabama to 
procure assassination I and soon the world is startled at this 
culminating dastarly act ! " Then you, and /, all of us fell 
down while bloody treasoi flourished over us." 

But there is a Providence still in all this. Truth and error 
are ever antagonistic, and there will always be friction along the 



2l6 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

line of their contact. Diplomacy had ceased ; the clash of arms 
resounded. Slavery defeated, again appeals to Diplomacy ; and 
here, dear friends, is our present danger. 

A sickly, morbid philanthropy is abroad — that dare not 
recognize treason and rebellion a crbne ; a growing lejiiency 
that may yet prove the country's doom ; the soothing style in 
which we meet the defeated, but still defiant rebel. 

But the voices of a half million patriots are to-day crying from 
the ground for vengeance ! " Carleton " writes, the very day of the 
assassination, "We now witness an impatient longing for 'peace 
at any price,' which impresses many statesmen with the con- 
viction that Lee's capitulation is but the commencement, rather 
than the end of our national troubles." Let us not forget the 
"frozen serpent, the peasant in pity put into his bosom." 

God hates slavery ! And its death-warrant has been read, 
and it must fall, if the nation goes down with it. Its appointed 
hour has come ! Could any act of this monster have so roused 
the nation to its danger ! God permits Booth for a season to 
escape, only that the nation may for a season rouse from her 
slumber, and heed her danger. Oh how this nation is aroused 
to-day ! How the malignant hiss of the copperhead has died 
away ! Shall it ever be heard again 1 Not if the nation feels as 
she does to-day ! "We can't hear a 7Uord disloyal to-day. The 
stars and stripes must be fiung to the breeze from every doubt- 
ful door ! Our mothers dare to vindicate the death of patriot 
sons, for there \^ freedom in the very air to-day ! 

A new era dawns upon us. We are ceasing to be a pro- 
slavery nation. God sees a new administration necessary, and 
does not palsy the loose arm that strikes down the nation's 
head. 

How strangely was our beloved Lincoln nominated ; how 
providentially elected. How like an angel spirit he led the 
cause of freedom onward, until the land was free. He has done 
his work, and so well. That blow that struck off the executive 
head of a pro-slavery government, finished that dynasty and 
inauuurated a world-wide freedom. 



FUNERAL OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 21 y 

God now would use a severer scourge to secure the future of 
free governments. 

How significant the assassin's cry, " Sic semper tyrannis " ! It 
was meet that it should thus destroy itself. Now let us live for 
freedom and for God. 

As it was in Melrose, so was it in every city, town, and 
.village throughout the loyal portion of our land. Eulogies, 
sermons and addresses were delivered before the assembled 
multitudes. Resolutions of grief, respect and admiration 
were offered by various corporated associations, and 
at the meetings of educational, literary, and historical 
societies, not only in our own, but in foreign lands. ^ 

" As there was never such a funeral as this, so there 
was never such a procession. That which moved from 
the White House, on the nineteenth, was but the begin- 
ning of a pageant that displayed its marvellous numbers 
and its every-varying forms, through country, and village, 
and city, winding across the territories of vast States, 
along a track of more than fifteen hundred miles. The 
President was to be borne back to his own people, and 
to be buried among the scenes of his early life. He had 
told the people of Springfield, Illinois, when he parted with 



' The Appendix to the " Diplomatic Correspondence of 1865," issued by 
the United States Government, contained the resolutions, proceeding.s, arti- 
cles, and correspondence of 1,139 different bodies and individuals, mostly in 
foreign countries; and Mr. Charles H. Hart, of Philadelphia, has made 
a very complete collection of the printed sermons, addresses, and eulo- 
gies called forth by this sad event. It numbers 431. He is soon to issue 
a work descriptive of the same, with the following title : " Bibliographia 
Lincolniana. A Catalogue of the Publications occasioned by the Death of 
Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States of America. 
With an Introduction and Notes. By Charles H. Hart, Historiographer of 
the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, etc., etc." 

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THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



them, more than four years before, that he owed to them 
all he was. It was but right that they should have his 
dust." 

As we commenced this notice of the downfall of the 
Rebellion by a quotation from Dr. Holland's " Life of 
Abraham Lincoln," so will we end it with the closing 
words of the same : 

Humble child of the back-woods, — boatman, axe-man, hired 
laborer, clerk, surveyor, captain, legislator, lawyer, debater, 
orator, politician, statesman, President, savior of the republic, 
emancipator of a race, true Christian, true man, — we receive thy 
life and its immeasurably great results, as the choicest gifts 
a mortal has ever bestowed upon us ; grateful to thee for thy 
truth to thyself, to us, and to God ; and grateful to that ministry 
of Providence and grace which endowed thee so richly, and 
bestowed thee upon the nation and mankind. 



XVI. 



Miscellaneous. 

cost of the war, for bounties and other necessary 
expenses. 

The amount of indebtedness of the town of Melrose, on 
the I St of March, 1861, was twenty-nine thousand two 
hundred and sixty dollars ($29,260.00). The amount of 
indebtedness April i, 1865, was seventy-five thousand, 
five hundred and thirty-two dollars ($75,532.00) ; ^ showing 
an increase for the four years of forty-six thousand, two 
hundred and seventy-two dollars ($46,272.00). Of this 
amount thirty-eight thousand, five hundred ninety-two 
dollars and seventy cents ($38,592.70) was incurred on 
account of the Rebellion.^ 

A large amount of money was raised and expended 
during these four years, by the citizens, which of course 
does not appear in the reports of the financial affairs of 
the town. In 1862, when our quota was thirty-seven men, 
and a certain number of citizens agreed to go into the 
service themselves, or furnish a man in their place, sums 
ranging from twenty to fifty dollars each, were paid to the 
substitutes then obtained. The amount thus paid must 
have been at least eight hundred dollars ($800.00). The 



> The amount of Town Debt, March i, 1868, was $60,578.11 ; a decrease 
in three years of $12,675.20. 

' In addition to this, $700.00 Bounty money was paid during the years 
1866-67, as per votes of the town. 



220 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

same year a subscription fund was raised by Mr William 
F, Poole, for the benefit of the families of those then in 
the service, which amounted to three hundred and forty 
dollars ($340.00). 

In 1863, four of the drafted citizens paid commutation 
money, three hundred dollars ($300.00) each, amounting 
to twelve hundred dollars ($1,200.00) ; and three furnished 
substitutes, costing nine hundred dollars ($900.00), besides 
some additional expenses in putting the men into the 
service. 

In 1864, three of our citizens furnished "Representative 
Recruits " costing three hundred and seventy-five dol- 
lars ($375.00) ; and four furnished " Substitute^ for En- 
rolled Men," costing about twenty-five hundred dollars 
($2,50000) ; and a fund of five thousand six hundred and 
fifty dollars ($5,650.00) was raised by the citizens, by sub- 
scription, in aid of the recruiting service. 

During the war, at least six hundred dollars ($600.00) 
in money — besides many boxes of hospital and other 
stores, — were contributed to the " Christian " and " Sani- 
tary Commissions," by the different churches : making a 
total amount of money, paid by the citizens, of over twelve 
thousand dollars ($12,000.00). Beside this amount many 
sums were given to individual soldiers, by their friends, at 
different times, of which it is impossible to make explicit 
mention. 

LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS. 

The town of Melrose was set off from the northern part 
of the town of Maiden and incorporated by Legislative 
Act, May 3, 1850. It was enlarged by the annexation of 
a small portion of the eastern part of the town of Stone- 
ham, March 15th, 1853. It contains two thousand nine 



LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS. 221 

hundred and twenty-one (2,921) square acres of territory, 
and is bounded as follows: — on the north by Wakefield, 
— formerly South Reading, — on the east by Saugus, on 
the south by Maiden, and on the west by Medford and 
Stoneham. When incorporated it had a population of 
twelve hundred and sixty (1,260), which had increased to 
twenty-eight hundred and sixty-five (2,865) ^t the time of 
the last census, 1865. 

The following is a list of its Selectmen, Town Clerks, 
Treasurers, Collectors, Assessors, School Committee, and 
Representatives to the General Court, from the date of its 
incorporation until the present time : 



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TOWN OFFICERS. 

YEAR. SELECTMEN. TOWN CLERK. TREASURER. COLLECTOR. 

f Jeremiah Martin. 

1850. } Isaac Emerson, Jr. Elbridge Green. Isaac Emerson. Isaac Emerson. 
' Artemas Barrett. 

/ Jeremiah Martin. 

1851. < Shubael L. Taylor. Jonathan Cochran. Isaac Emerson. Shubael L. Taylor. 
( Jonathan Cochran. 

/ Jeremiah Martin. 

1852. } Franklin Taylor. Jonathan Cochran. Isaac Emerson. Freeman Upham. 
' Rufus H. Flint, 

/ Franklin Taylor. 

1853. } Ephraim Avery. Francis Bugbee. Isaac Emerson. Asa Slocum. 
' Henry Sprague. 

/ George Emerson. 

1854. } John Blake. Francis Bugbee, John Blake. Wm. N.Wilkinson, 
' James M. Thresher. 

^ John Blake. 

1855. < Tames M. Thresher. Francis Bugbee. Caleb Howard. Caleb Howard. 
' James .M Beckett. 

/ George M. Fletcher. 

1856. } Wm. E. Fuller. Francis Bugbee. Caleb Howard. Caleb Howard. 
( James M, Beckett. 

^ George M. Fletcher. 

1857. < Wm. E. Fuller. Francis Bugbee. Caleb Howard. Caleb Howard. 
' Benj.F.Abbott.M.D. 

/ Elbrtdge Gardner. 

1858. } Ephraim Avery. Chas. H. Shepard. Caleb Howard. Caleb Howard. 
' Nelson Cochran, 

/ Elbridge Gardner, 

1859. } Wm. J. Farnsworth. Edward R. Knights. Caleb Howard. Stephen J.Phinney. 
' George M. Fletcher. 

/ George Emerson. 
i860. < Nelson Cochran. Edward R. Knights. Caleb Howard. George Newhall. 
' Wm. T. Farnsworth. 



' The new Representative system went into operation this year. The towns, Stoneham, South 
Reading, — now Wakefield, — and Mehose, forming the Twentieth Middlesex Representative 



LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS. 



223 



TOWN OFFICERS. 



ASSESSORS. 



SCHOOL COMMITTEE'. 



Representatives 

TO 

General court. 



Aaron Green. Henry A. Norris. 

Shubael L. Taylor. Caleb Howard. 
Wm. J. Farnsworth. Elbridge Green. 

Shubael L. Taylor. Erastus O. Phinney, M.D. 

Aaron Green. Rev. Wilson R. Parsons. John T. Paine. 

Rufus H. Flint. Rev. Josiah W. Talbot. 

Aaron Green. Rev. Wilson R. Parsons. 

German S. Phippen. Erastus O. Phinney, M.D. Daniel W. Gooch. 

Henry Sprague. George E. White. 

Rev. John C. Ingalls. Daniel W. Gooch. 

German S. Phippen. George P. Burnham. Samuel O. Dearboi 

Joshua Upham. John Shelton. 

Jonathan Cochran. Elbridge Green. 

German S. Phippen. Erastus O. Phinney, M.D. Voted not to send. 

Asa Upham. Charles H. Simonds. 

Geo. M. Fletcher. Erastus O. Phinney, M.D. 

Jonathan Cochran. Rev. Alex'r. J. Sessions. John Vial. 

Edward P. Nevens. Rev. J. A. Coolidge. 

Jonathan Cochran. Rev. Alex'r. J. Sessions. 

Benjamin Linikin. Walter Littlcfield. Voted not to send. 

Geo. M. Fletcher. Caleb Howard. 



Jonathan Cochran. 
Geo. M. Fletcher. 
Joseph Holbrook. 

Jonathan Cochran. 
Joseph Holbrook. 
Henry Robinson. 

Jonathan Cochran. 
Henry Robinson. 
Wm. E. Fuller. 

Jonathan Cochran. 
Wm. B. Burgess. 
• Geo. M. Fletcher. 



Rev. Alex'r. J. Sessions. 
Rev. Wm. H. Munroe. 
Rev. J. S. Dennis. 

Moses Parker, M.D. 
Rev. Wm. H. Munroe. 
George N. Noyes. 



Guy Lamkin. 

* Walter Littlefield, Jr. 

J. Sullivan Eaton, South Reading 



Erastus O. Phinney, M.D. J. Parker Gould, Stoneham. 
Rev. Wm. H. Munroe. Loren L. Fuller. 
Rev. James Cooper. 

Erastus O. Phinney, M.D. John Wiley, 2d, South Reading. 
Aaron Green. Lyman Dyke, Stoneham. 

Elbridge Gardner. 



District, sending two Representatives to the General Court each year. Changed to the Twenty- 
Tliird District in 1866. 



224 '^"^ MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



YEAR, SELECTMEN. TOWN CLBRK. TREASURER. COLLECTOR. 

Wm, B. Burgess. 
l86i. \ George M. Fletcher.EdvvardR. Knights. Caleb Howard. George Newhall. 
'^ Col. John H.Clark. 

/ Col. John H. Clark. 

1862. < Wm. B. Burgess. Edward R. Knights. Caleb Howard. George Newhall. 
' George M. Fletcher. 

^ Col. John H. Clark. 

1863. < Wm. B. Burgess. Edward R. Knights, Caleb Howard. George Newhall. 
' George M. Fletcher. 

/ Col. John H. Clark. 

1864. < Wm. B. Burgess. Edward R. Knights. Caleb Howard. John Smith. 
' Wm. E. Fuller. 

r 

Wingate P. Sargent. 

1865. <( George M. Fletcher. Stinson Sewall. David Fairbanks. David Fairbanks. 

Isaac Emerson, Jr. 

r 

I Wingate P. Sargent. 
1866.^ George M. Fletcher. Stinson Sewall. David Fairbanks. David Fairbanks. 
I Isaac Emerson, Jr. 

L 

r Wingate P. Sargent. 
I 
1867.^ Isaac Emerson, Jr. Stinson Sewall. David Fairbanks. Aaron Green. 

I George M. Fletcher. 

/ Wingate P. Sargent. 
1868. ■] James C. Curriei*. Stinson Sewall. David Fairbanks.Geo.F. Boardman. 
' George Newhall. 



LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS 



225 



ASSESSORS. SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 

Erastus O. Phinncy, M.D. 
Luther Robinson. 
Charles H. Isburgh. 

Luther Robinson. 
Charles H. Isburgh. 
Henry E. Trowbridge. 

Charles H. Isburgh. 
Georsje A. Mansfield. 



Representatives 

TO 

General Court. 
Artemas Barrett. 
William H. Pierce, South Readins, 



Edward P. Nevens. 
Joseph R. Simonds. 
Theo. B. Merrick. 

Edward P. Nevens. 
Geo. M. Fletcher. 
Stephen Shelton. 

Edward P. Nevens. 
Geo. M. Fletcher. 
Stephen Shelton. 

Edward P. Nevens. Joseph B. Sanford. Daniel Allen, Sotith Reading. 

Stephen Shelton. Rev. John B. Richmond. Isaac Emerson, Jr. 
Geo. M. Fletcher. Thomas W. Chadbourne. 



Cautain John H. Dyke, Stoneham. 
William H. Atwell, So. Readmg, 

Isaac Emerson, Jr. 

Leander F. Lynde, Stoneham. 



George Emerson. 

Joel Snow. 

Geo. M. Fletcher. 



George Emerson. 

Joel Snow. 

Geo. M. Fletcher. 



Joel Snow. 

Geo. M. Fletcher. 

George Emerson. 

Erastus O. Phinney, 

M.D. 
Aaron Green. 
Elbridge Green. 



Hon. Samuel E. Sewall. 
Thomas W. Chadbourne. 
Eev. John B. Richmond. 
George N. Noyes. 
George A. Mansfield. 
George Emerson, 2d. 
Charles H. Isburgh. 
Thomas W. Chadbourne. 
George N. Noyes. 
George Emerson, 2d. 
George A Mansfield. 
Charles H. Isburgh. 
Thomas W. Chadbourne. 
Moses Parker, M.D. 
Rev. Nathan P. Selee. 
Rev. Wm. S. Barnes. 

Nelson Cochran. 
Gilbert Nash. 



Leander F. Lynde, Stoneham. 
Daniel Allen, South Reading. 



Rufus Smith. 

John Kingman, Stoneham. 



John Botume, Jr., Stoneham. 
James F. Mansfield, So. Reading. 

Levi S. Gould. 

James F. Mansfield, So. Reading. 



29 



226 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 
VALUATION OF MELROSE. 



Year. 


Real Estate. 


Personal Estate. 


Total. 


1861. 


Ji, 288,066 


;?i34.7S4 


$1,422,820 


1862. 


1,320,280 


125,867 


1,446,147 


1863. 


J. 334.643 


161,186 


1,493.829 


1864. 


1,329,685 


126,057 


I.4SS.74* 


1865. 


1,366,48s 


311,369 


1,677.854 



The increase of valuation in the real estate of our town, 
during the Rebellion, was seventy-eight thousand four 
hundred and nineteen ($78,419.00) dollars ; in the personal 
estate the increase was one hundred and seventy-six thou- 
sand, six hundred and fifteen ($176,615.00) dollars; an 
aggregate of two hundred fifty-five thousand and thirty- 
four ($255,034.00) dollars ; an average of fifty-one thousand 
and seven ($51,007.00) dollars a year. 

It should be stated that the great increase in personal 
property for the year 1865, over previous years, was owing 
to the fact that income from business was taxed that year, 
and not the years preceding. 



I 



i 



DEBT AND BOUNTIES. 
TABLE OF DEBT. 



22' 



1 United States Debt. 


" Massachusetts Debt. 


8 Melrose Town Debt. 


July I, 1 860. 


564.769.703 08 


Dec. 31, i860. 


^7. 1 75.977 94 


March 16, 1861. 


$29,260 00 


" I, 1861. 


90,867,828 68 


" 31, 1861. 


10,988,919 65 


" 24, 1862. 


35,560 00 


" I, 1862. 


514,211,371 92 


" 31, 1862. 


11,129,578 71 


" 2, 1863. 


57,560 00 


" I, 1863. 


i.°98.793.i8i 37 


" 31, 1863. 


12,794,862 42 


" I, 1864. 


53,900 00 


" 1, 1864. 


1,740,690,489 49 


" 31, 1864. 


22,529,015 34 


I, 1865. 


73.253 31 


" I, 1865. 


2,682,593,026 53 


" 31. 1865. 


23.233.631 75 


" 1, 1866. 


69,819 67 


" 1, 1866. 


2.783.425.879 21 


" 31, 1866. 


25.555.747 5' 







■* Tahilar state7neiit showing the bounties paid by the United 
States during the war. 



Amount. 



$100 
400 



300 
300 



100 
200 
300 



By what authority paid. 



Act of July 22, 1 861. 
G. O. 191, of June 25, 

1863, A.G. O. 
Circular, Oct. 24, 1863, 

P. M. G. O. 
Telegram, Dec. 24, 1863, 

from A. G. O. 



Act approved July 4, 

'64,and circularNo. 

27, of 1864, from 

P. M. G. O. 

G. O. 287, A. G. O., 

Nov. 28, 1864. 
Letters of War Depart- 
ment, Nov. 29, 1863, 
and Dec. 22, 1863, to 
Gens. Butler and Gil- 
more. 



To whom paid. 



All volunteers. 

Veterans. 

New recruits enlisting 
in old organizations. 

New recruits enlisting 
in any three year 
organization author- 
ized by the War De- 
partment. 

(Volunteers enlisting 
f(ir one, two, and 
three years. 

Men enlisting in 1st 

Army Corps. 
Colored recruits. 



Between what dates paid. 



From com. of war to July 18, 1864. 

From June 25, '63, to April 1, 186^ 
From Oct. 24, '63, to April 1, 1864. 



From Dec. 24, '63, to April i. 1864. 



From July 19, '64, to July i, 1865. 
From Nov. 28, '64, to July i, 1865. 



1 Obtained through the kindness of Mr. William B. Willson, of Southboro', Mass. 

2 The real debt for these years was some $6,000,000 less than these figures, that amount 
being loaned to different Railroads in the State and secured by mortgages. The State Debt 
for Jan. i, 1868, was $26,573,560.12, and it was classified in the report of the Finance Com- 
mittee as follows : 

Railroad Debt $6,751,196 00 

Ante- War Debt 1,340,000 00 

War Debt 16,573,244 00 

Temporary Debt 1,909,120 12 

$26,573,560 12 
The war cost Massachusetts nearly $28,000,000. 

* For net amount of expenses incurred on account of the war, see page 219. 

* Tliis table, and the one following is from the final report of the Provost-Marshal General of 
the United States, James B. Fry. 



228 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Estimate of the number of men to whom United States Bounty 
has been paid, the amoimt paid each man, and the total amount 
paid, from May 3, 186 1, to the end of the war. 





1 Periods 


Number | Amt. 


Total 


Aggregate 


Periods embraced. 


Class of men. 


of 


of 


per 


amount 


for 






service. 


men. 


man. 


paid. 


each period . 


From May 3, 1861, to Oct. 


Volunteers. 


3 years. 


905,869 


$100 


J90, 586,900 


$90,586,900 


17, 1863. 














From Oct. 17, 1863, to July 


Veteran volun- 




158,507 


400 


63,402,800 


■ 


18, 1864. 


teers. 


" 












■ Recruits. 


" 


257,028 


300 


77,108,400 


^ 146.417.500 




- 


'* 


11,025 


100 


1,102,500 






Drafted men 




48,038 


100 


4,803,800 






and substitutes. 












From July 18, 1864, to the 


Volunteers. 


I year. 


191,936 


100 


19,193,600 


) 


end of the war. 


" 


2 years. 


10,606 


200 


2,121,200 


> 63,219,100 






3 years. 


139,681 


300 


41,904,300 


) 


Total 


1,722,690 




$300,223,500 


$300,223,500 





DESTRUCTION OF A REBEL BLOCKADE RUNNER. 

The following is an account of the burning of the 
schooner " Isabel " while under the guns of Fort Morgan, 
in May, 1863, by Lieutenant N. Mayo Dyer, — then Act- 
ing Master's Mate, — written by him the next day after the 
transaction. It was a daring and brilliant achievement ; 
and Captain Jouett, in recommending him very strongly 
for promotion as Ensign, spoke of it as "one of the bold- 
est of the war, and was conducted with matchless coolness 
from beginning to end." 

U. S. S. " R. R. CUYLER," 

Off Mobile Bar, May 18, 1863. 

* * * I had asked and obtained permission of Captain Jouett, 

to allow me to take an armed boat into Swash Channel, by 

which most of the blockade runners ran out and in, in order to 

board them if possible ; if not, to signalize the direction they 



' Enlisted between Oct, 17, 1863, and April i, 1864. 
^ Enlisted between April 1, 1864, and July 18, 1864 



LIEUTENANT DYER'S EXPLOIT, 229 

took, so as to be taken by the steamers. Last night being a 
favorable night for some schooners that we knew were inside to 
run out, I had everything prepared, and at 6.20 left the ship 
and pulled in shore. The position I wished to get in was about 
a quarter of a mile from " Fort Morgan," where the channel is not 
above a half-mile wide, and I could readily see anything coming 
out or in. The tide was running very strong and I did not 
reach the position I desired until 10.30. Coming to an anchor, 
I watched ; I could plainly see a man on the beach, we were so 
close. About 11 I discovered, as it lit up a little, a vessel 
ahead of me and nigher the Fort. I at once took it to be a 
steamer from the inside, come out to look after just such 
fellows as myself; so taking a position a little nearer him so as 
to observe any movement he might make, I kept shady. He 
was apparently at anchor. About a quarter to 12, behold 
what I supposed was a steamer, hoisted her mainsail, and I 
made her out to be a schooner looking quite rakish; but still 
thought, as she lay so quietly at anchor, that it was a picket 
boat ; however I pulled up to her, going so nigh as to hear 
noises distinctly. She lay about two hundred yards from the 
beach of " Fort Morgan," and I could plainly see the guns frovvn- 
ng over the parapets of the Fort. I wanted to board her at 
once, and proposed it to the men. But three of them seemed to 
take the idea favorably ; and as she lay so nigh the Fort, I did 
not like the idea of boarding her with a crew of unwilling men. 
So pulling up again and reconnoitring her closely, on the 
in-shore side, I saw a boat pull off to her from the shore, and 
discovered she had a hawser out to the Fort also. I then got on 
the off-shore side of her and dropped my anchor quietly, near 
her. I was provoked to find any disposition to back out on the 
part of the men ; but finally, asking them individually, seven of 
the thirteen expressed their desire to board her, and the others 
said they would go into " Fort Morgan " if I sai'c/ so, but considered 
it a little imprudent, as I had orders no^ to board anything 
until out of the range of the Fort. You see I was hardly justi- 



230 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

fied in ordering my men to follow me unwillingly. However I 
now concluded to do it, and pulling right astern of her, giving 
my directions to the men as I took my place in the bow, to pull 
steadily, and the moment she touched the schooner, to trail 
oars and get on her decks as soon as possible, using only the 
cold steel, as fire-arms would have brought a hornet's nest 
about our heads. Fully expecting to find her armed, I was sur- 
prised on getting close to her to see that she had a deck-load 
of cotton. Whispering my men to give way, in another stroke 
we were alongside and aboard of her. We took them com- 
pletely by surprise. The whole crew, seven men, were on deck 
and awake, and the first intimation they had of what was up, 
they beheld us coming on to the deck-load, with drawn cutlasses, 
and there was a sharp pointed instrument at each man's breast 
before he knew what the matter was ; and commanding the 
utmost silence, I ordered them all into the boat under a guard. 
They were as docile as lambs. I went at one poor fellow with 
my cutlass, the first man I saw as I reached the deck, and 
thinking his days were numbered, he gave a scream, and leaped 
overboard like a frog ; however I managed to get him aboard 
again. I soon found that she was hard ashore, having run 
aground in attempting to run out. Finding it impossible to 
save her, that is get her off, I at once determined to burn her ; 
so securing all her papers, some of them valuable, I spread 
cotton all over the cabin floor and saturated it with turpentine, 
of which she had seventy or eighty barrels on deck. I also 
emptied a barrel of the same on deck all over her cotton, and 
then took a bucketful of it, and seeing every man in the boat, 
set fire to the cabin and threw my bucketful into the galley on 
the stove, where there was a fire. Like a flash she was com- 
pletely covered with flames fore and aft, nearly blinding me 
with smoke and heat as I jumped into the boat and shoved off", 
just as a Rebel gun-boat came round Mobile Point, about a 
thousand yards off", to her assistance. The boat I had seen board 
the schooner was from this steamer, and had returned for the 



NAVAL VICTORY AT MOBILE. 23I 

Steamer to tow her off. I arrived on board the " Cuyler " at 3.30, 
with my seven prisoners, and was warmly congratulated by Cap- 
tain Jouett and my fellow officers. She was the rebel schooner 
" Isabel "with two hundred bales of cotton and about one hun- 
dred barrels turpentine, quite a valuable cargo if it could have 
been saved. 



FARRAGUTS GREAT NAVAL VICTORY AT MOBILE PAS- 
SAGE OF FORTS "morgan" AND "GAINES." 

The following is Lieutenant Dyer's interesting account 
of the terrific fight and complete victory of our navy, in 
passing Forts "Morgan" and "Gaines." Dyer was, at 
the time of this writing, Acting Master ; and for some 
months previous to this action, had been in command of 
the steamer " Eugenie." 

U. S. S. " Metacomet," 

Inside Mobile Bay, 

Aug. 5, 1864. 

* * * Our fleet, consisting of fourteen wooden vessels and four 
iron-clads, successfully passed Forts "Morgan" and "Gaines "this 
morning at 8 o'clock, whipping the Rebel fleet, and is at this 
moment in complete possession of Mobile Bay. I wish you could 
just be on board this, or any other vessel here for a few minutes 
and witness the scene. We are all now lying quietly at anchor in 
the Bay, with the Star Spangled Banner floating from every gaff 
and mast-head in the fleet, and in our midst the famous ram 
"Tennessee," Admiral Buchanan, and the Confederate gun- 
boat " Selma," both of which struck their colors to our victo- 
rious flag. Our loss has been the heaviest of any naval fight 
of the war by far. This ship was struck about twenty times, 
but strange to say we have lost but one killed and two wounded. 
In all we have about fifty killed and seventy-five wounded, not 
including the monitor " Tecumseh," which was blown up by a 



2.]2 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

torpedo, and all hands sank with her except twelve or fourteen 
— ten of whom were picked up by a boat from this ship. But 
to give you something of an idea of the fight, I will inclose a 
diagram of our position at the time the " Tecumseh " blew up. 
I have placed the ships in the position they were at the decisive 
moment of the fight, the time that the " Tecumseh " blew up. 
As you will see, the line was formed as follows : — " Brooklyn," 
with the " Octorora " alongside ; " Hartford " — Flag-Ship, — 
with the " Metacomet " ; " Richmond " and " Port Royal " ; 
" Lackawanna " and " Kennebec "; " Ossipee " and " Seminole "; 
'' Monongahela " and " Itasca," and the " Oneida " and 
" Galena " ; the " Tecumseh " was to the right of the " Brook- 
lyn," the "Manhattan" to the right of the "Hartford," the 
" Winnebago " to the right of the " Richmond," and the 
" Chickasaw " to the right of the " Lackawanna," the four last 
being monitors. 

At 6.30 our line was formed, and we advanced to the con- 
flict, — with an ensign at every mast-head and gaff in the fleet. 
And in the light of an August morning's sun the bright hues of 
our banners seemed to inspire every one with courage and hope, 
notwithstanding many, no doubt, with myself, felt the momentous 
importance of the moment ; and with an inward prayer for 
victory, nerved themselves for the fight. At seven o'clock " Fort 
Morgan " opened fire, which was at once returned from the 
" Brooklyn's " forecastle gun, and soon after, by a broadside 
from the "Brooklyn" and " Hartford," when the fight became 
general with the leading ships. From this time until 7.45 the 
firing was rapid. The rebel fleet had come out from behind the 
point and lay directly ahead of our line delivering a raking fire 
upon us, which we could not return. About this time the 
" Brooklyn " discovered a torpedo ahead, and backing to clear 
it, the " Hartford " and this ship took the lead, and at eight 
o'clock were in the position described by the diagram. At 8.05 
1 he "Tecumseh" blew up, close on our starboard beam — and 
ihc firing now was terrific. To attempt a description is impossi- 



NAVAL FIGHT IN MOBILE BAY. 233 

ble. Forts " Morgan " and "Gaines " upon either side — four gun- 
boats ahead raking us, and the " Tecumseh " going down before 
our eyes. We sent a boat to pick up the floating. The Admiral 
then steamed with the " Hartford " close in to the Fort, within 
two hundred yards of the beach, closely followed by the " Brook- 
lyn," and poured broadside after broadside of grape and can- 
ister into them, steaming slowly ahead all the time. As soon 
as we had passed out of range of their grape, we cut loose from 
the " Hartford " and steamed off on our own hook for the three 
gun-boats ahead ; they at once headed up the bay, fighting us 
at the same time. We engaged the whole of them, leaving the 
" Tennessee " to the tender mercies of the fleet. We soon 
succeeded in crippling the " Gaines," and we then had the 
" Morgan " on one bow and the " Selma " on the other. Soon 
the " Morgan " turned her tail, and after a running fight of fifty 
minutes the " Selma" struck her colors and I was ordered on 
board to take charge. I did so, and found five men killed and 
ten wounded, three of whom have since died. Transferred pris- 
oners to our ship, buried the dead, hoisted the Stars and Stripes 
and steamed down to the Admiral. We were about seven miles 
from our fleet when she surrendered. As the " Metacomet " is 
to go to Pejisacola with the wounded, myself with my prize crew 
have just returned to our ship, having been relieved, and the 
wounded on both sides are now coming on board. The " Ten- 
nessee " surrendered to the fleet after a desperate fight. She 
did not fulfil the boast of Admiral Buchanan, C. S. Navy, of 
" whipping the whole Yankee fleet in one hour " quite ! though 
she is a most formidable vessel ; and nothing but a determina- 
tion to destroy her, or be destroyed, effected her capture. 
Admiral Buchanan, commanding the rebel fleet, is now on board 
wounded in the leg. The officers of the " Selma " and " Ten- 
nessee," so far as I have seen, take it quite coolly, though 
evidently much chagrined at the result ; they are gentlemen, 
and I think have no fault to find with their treatment so fir. 
I am deeply thankful for my escape thus far and F hope I may 
be equally fortunate still. 
30 



234 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

Pensacola, Aug. 6. 

At daylight this morning got under weigh from our anchorage 
and ran down to " Fort Morgan " with all the wounded on board. 
I was sent to communicate with the Fort, under a flag of 
truce, and delivered the bodies of two officers, killed on board 
the " Selma," and received permission to take the wounded to 
this place, where we arrived at 2 P. M. We have delivered the 
wounded to the hospital, and to-morrow morning start again for 
Mobile Bay, having come out with the express understanding 
that we were to return and report to the Fort as soon as possible. 
The only outlet is by the same way we entered, and therefore, 
until we effect the capture of one of the three forts, we are vir- 
tually blockaded, our communications cut off, etc. " Fort Powell " 
is the smallest and weakest fort, and without doubt we shall have 
that within a day or two, when we can work at our leisure, as 
their communications are as effectually cut off as ours. With five 
thousand troops all three forts would be in our j^ossession in less 
than a fortnight, in my opinion, and I think we shall have that 
number soon. Already our forces occupy a portion of Dauphin 
Island, on which " Fort Gaines " is situated, and are operating 
against it, under command of General Granger. 

A short extract from another of Lieutenant Dyer's 
letters, written five days later, is interesting as giving' an 
idea of the sentiments of the people in and about Mobile 
at that time. 

.... You are doubtless looking for the fall of Mobile City 
daily, but be not impatient ; when we get ready then the thing 
will be accomplished. " Fort Powell," commanding " Grant's 
Pass," has been blown up and abandoned, and ." Fort Gaines " 
has surrendered to the Navy, with its garrison of eight hundred 
and fifty men, and our flag now waves over both forts. " Fort 
Morgan " still holds out, but its surrender is but a question of 
time. Our "fleet is all around it, that is, have complete control of 



SCENES ABOUT MOBILE BAY, 235 

its water approaches, and the army is within four hundred yards 

of its walls on tlie land To-day we have been up the 

Bay on a reconnoissance, to within five miles of the city, and 
have had a grand view of the town and its water defences. About 
three and a half miles below the town is what is called Dog 
River Bar, where they have made extensive preparations to 
receive us. The channel is sealed up by sunken vessels, piles, 
etc. ; and then above them they have three rams and two iron- 
clad floating batteries, besides batteries upon the shore both 

sides up to the city About eight miles below the city 

I landed with a party, and visited several houses in the vicinity. 
Saw one woman who left the city this morning; she says the 
greatest excitement exists in Mobile, but that there are very few 
troops there. There is not an able-bodied man, nor boy over 
twelve years of age, on either side of the Bay ; every one is con- 
scripted, or fled to the woods to escape it. Those that I saw, 
most of them, are manifestly glad to see us, but dare not say all 
they wish till they are sure that we will remain. One very pretty 
young lady remarked to me, in answer to my question, as to 
whether there were any Union people about, " If we only were 
certain of your stopping here, you could find nothing but Union 
people, and real Union people, too ; but if it should be known 
that we gave you any information, they would take us to town 
and put us in the common jail." Consequently when we 
wanted to purchase some chickens or peaches, they would take 
no money, but told us to take them, and then they could say 
we took them by force. Tliey seemed anxious to hurry us off", 
for they momentarily expected a company of cavalry from town. 
I established a code of signals with one woman there, by which 
I can tell hereafter whether there are any troops in the vicinity, 
before landing. 

INCIDENTS. 

The following incidents arc here introduced from "Carle- 
ton's " " Four Years of Fighting," because they happened in 
connection with the Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment, 



236 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

in which we had a goodly number of " boys in bhie," and 
relate so closely to him who was our friend and neighbor, 
the brave and lamented Colonel — then Major — J. Parker 
Gould, of Stoneham.^ Colonel Gould represented our 
district in the Legislature during the winter of 1858-9. 
He led his Regiment, — the Fifty-Ninth Massachusetts, 
— into the last campaign, and was then assigned to the 
command of First Brigade, First Division, Ninth Army 
Corps ; and when before Petersburg, he was severely 
wounded. While at Philadelphia, on his way home, he 
died. He was a noble man, loved and respected for his 
heroic qualities and Christian virtues, by all who knew 
him ; and by none more so than by those who served 
under him during the war.2 



' The Thirteenth Regiment furnished many officers for other organizations. 
Our Lieutenant Dyer, now in the U. S. Navy, Captain Simondsof the Third 
Massachusetts Cavalry, and Lieutenant Morse, killed at " Battle of Spottsyl- 
vania," all rose from its ranks. In recommending men in the service for 
appointments, Governor Andrew said of the Thirteenth : — " Batchelder is 
not needed there. That regiment could furnish officers for a whole regiment 
outside of itself, and be no more weakened than is a bird by laying its eggs. 
It is remarkable for its excellence of material." 

Several poems were written complimentary to this regiment. One entitled 
" Song of the Thirteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Rifles." Another "The 
Gallant 'I'hirtcenth," written just after the fights of " Bolivar Heights " and 
" Harper's Ferry," two stanzas of which are as follows : 

Tried, and found not wanting I valiant, firm, and true, 
Hoston fathers' flowing hearts send greeting back to you ; 
Tears were dried in loving pride, when first you marched away. 
How proudly now lifts every brow, that you have ivon the day ! 

********* 

And now, all question put aside, they know you as you are, 

'J'he heroes who set at nought at Heights of Bolivar I 

And Harper's Ferry, names which hence, long as Potomac roll, 

Emblazoned, shine along the line, on the gallant Thirteenth's scroll I 

' The following extract from a letter to one of our citizens, written just before 
the Peninsula campaign of 1862, shows his hopeful spirit : "I think I have 
seen most all the varieties in the bill of zt/arfare, from the common duties to 



THE INTELLIGENT SLAVE. 237 

These incidents happened while a detachment of the 
Thirteenth Regiment, under Major Gould, was stationed 
at Hancock, Md., and in the winter of 1 861-2. And it 
must be remembered that at that time slaves were returned 
to their so-called loyal masters, and the Hutchinsons had 
been expelled, by order of General McClellan, from the 
camps of our soldier boys, where they had been singing, 
because they sang abolition songs, and it was feared the 
soldiers' minds would be poisoned thereby. But a change 
was gradually taking place in public opinion, on these 
matters. 

A negro slave, belonging in Winchester, came into the 
lines. He was intelligent, cautious, shrewd, and loyal. 
Major Gould did not return him to his master, but asked 
him if he would go back and ascertain the whereabouts of 
Stonewall Jackson ; the negro readily assented. He was 
supplied with packages of medicine, needles, thread, and 
other light articles greatly needed in the South. With these 
he easily passed the Rebel pickets : " Been out to get 'em 
for massa," was his answer, when questioned by the rebels. 



the smart skirmish. Yet I wish to see it out, for no man can see the service 
that I have seen, without leaning to warlike feelings. The rebels must be taught 
one everlasting lesson. I predict that the Union forces will succeed, and if so, 
slavery is a dead letter. Though slavery is not the question in the contest, 
it will die away naturally, and perforce Union is the question, and it is the 
only necessary question now, and it is going to be decided in the affirmative. 
I thought some time ago that most of the fighting would be over by June, 
so that perhaps we should be ordered home by July — but now I think it 
may possibly take longer. If the coming battles at Yorktown and Corinth must 
decide the hard fate of the war so far as large battles are concerned, — still, 
from the character of the people, there will probably be much guerilla fighting. 
But the Southern people have become singularly educated, and they are singu- 
larly ignorant." In the spring of 1864, when Colonel of the 59th Regiment, 
and just before the final campaign, the same cheerful and hopeful spirit 
animated him, he then predicting, in conversation, certain successes, and 
that by the following Christmas, 



^38 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Thus he passed repeatedly into the rebel lines, obtaining 
information which was transmitted to Washington. He 
had great influence with the slaves. 

" They are becoming restless," said he, " but I tells 'em that 
they must be quiet. I says to 'em keep yer eyes wide open and 
pray for de good "time comin'. I tells 'em if de Souf whip, it is 
all night wid yer; but if de Norf whip it is all day wid yer." 
" Do they believe it ? " Major Gould asked. " Yes, massa, all 
believe it. The black men am all wid yer, only some of 'em 
isn't bery well informed ; but dey is all wid yer. Massa tinks 
dey isn't wid yer, but dey is." 

How sublime the picture ! — a slave counselling his 
fellow-bondmen to keep quiet and wait till God should 
give them deliverance. 

Among the many rebel ministers who had done what 
they could to precipitate the Rebellion, was a Presbyterian 
minister in the vicinity of Charlestown, Va. It was his 
custom, after closing his sermon, to invite the young men 
to enlist in the regiments then forming. On one of these 
occasions he made an address in which he gave utterance 
to the following sentiment : 

" If it is necessary to defend Southern institutions and South- 
ern rights, I will wade ujd to my shoulders in blood ! " 

This was brave ; but the time came when the chivalry 
of the parson was put to the test. When the rebels were 
routed at Bolivar, he, not being mounted on so fleet a 
horse as those of his flock who had given heed to his 
counsels and joined the cavalry, found himself left behind. 
A bullet lodged in the body of his horse prevented escape. 
He then tried his own legs, but soon found himself in the 
hands of the soldiers, who brought him to head-quarters. 



A SLIGHT MISTAKE. 239 

He at once claimed protection of Major Gould on the most 
extraordinary grounds. He had read the poems of Hannah 
Gould, and presumed that Major Gould, hailing from 
Massachusetts, must be her kinsman. When confronted 
with the Major he promptly exclaimed, 

" Major, I have read the poems of Miss Hannah Gould, and 
admire them ; presuming that she is a relative of yours, I claim 
your protection and consideration." 

The- Major replied that he had not the honor to be a 
relative of that gifted lady, but that he should accord him 
all the consideration due to those who had rebelled against 
the peace and dignity of the United States, and had been 
taken with arms in their hands. He was marched oft" with 
the others, and placed under guard. 

ARTICLES EXCHANGED. 

In a letter to the writer, from Lieutenant George C. 
Kaulback, of the Tenth Massachusetts Regiment, written 
after the battle of " Fredericksburg," while lying on the 
banks of the Rappahannock, is described the manner in 
which articles of daily use were frequently exchanged 
between the rebels and our troops. This was done by means 
of slips of wood, two or three feet long, cut into the form 
of boats, and sent across with little sails. The following 
letter came over in this way, tied to the mast of one of 
these boats : 

Outpost, Feb. 9, 1863. 

Gents, on U. S. Duty : ^Ve have received the small cargo 
of coffee. Accept our sincere thanks. In return we send you 
a small quantity of tobacco. We regret it is so small. In regard 
to Abe's negro proclamation — we suppose you all cordially 



240 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

endorse this last great act. Abe says " he cannot escape 
histoiy." But he need not be alarmed. He is not known out- 
side of his own dominions as anybody but Abe Lincoln, a 
perjured villain. How does he and you reconcile to your vile 
consciences his oath he took on the 4th of March, 1861, when 
he pledged his honor as a dog, that he had no intention to inter- 
fere with the institution of slavery where it existed, and to sup- 
port the Constitution of the United States, as made by our 
forefathers. 

We are, gents. 

Yours truly, 

REBELS. 

P. S. How long before your army of observation will make 
another " On to Richmond ! " 



XVII. 



LIST OF COMMISSIONED OFFICERS FROM MELROSE. 

Names. Date of commission. 

BREVET COLONEL. 

. Archibald Bogle. Seventeenth Massachusetts Regiment 
Infantry and Thirty-Fifth U. S. C. 
Troops. Second Lieutenant, Aug. 21, 
1861 ; First Lieutenant, May 28, 1862. 
Major, May 20, 1863 ; Brevet Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, March 13, 1864; 
Brevet Colonel, March 13, 1865 ; 
Commissioned First Lieutenant in 
United States Army, and assigned to 
Thirty-Ninth U. S. Infantry at New 
Orleans, March, 1868, 

MAJOR. 
J. Spencer Drayton.^ Thirty-Fifth U. S. Colored Troops. 
First Lieutenant and Quartermaster, 
April 28, 1863 ; Captain, July 14, 
1863; on General Wild's Staff, from 
July 14, 1863, until June 28, 1864, 
when discharged for disability ; Com- 
missioned Paymaster for State of 
Massachusetts, with rank of Major, 
July 23, 1864, and ordered to New 
Berne, N. C. Remained until April, 
1865. Discharged Dec. 31, 1866. 

' When Rebellion broke out was resident in Dedham, and enlisted in 
Second Massachusetts Battery ; discharged for disability ; re-enlistcd Feb. 
31 



242 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

CAPTAINS. 

Joseph R. Simonds. Seventeenth Massachusetts Regi- 
ment Infantry, Aug. 21, 1861. 

Joseph F. Simonds. Third Massachusetts Cavalry. 
Second Lieutenant, Sept. 20, 1864; 
First Lieutenant, May 28, 1865 ; 
Captain, Oct. 5, 1865. 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS. 

George W. Batchelder. Thirty-Second Massachusetts 
Regiment Infantry. Second Lieu- 
tenant, Dec. 4, 1864; First Lieuten- 
ant, April I, 1865. 

J. Wesley Jones. Twelfth U. S. Infantry. May 14, 1861. 

George T. Martin. Thirty-Eighth Massachusetts Regi- 
ment Infantry and Fourth Heavy 
Artillery. Second Lieutenant, Aug. 
16, 1862 ; First Lieutenant, April 14, 
1863 ; Senior First Lieutenant, Aug. 
16, 1864. 

George J. Morse. Second U. S. Colored Troops and 
Fifty-Ninth Massachusetts Regiment 
Infantry. Second Lieutenant, March 
2, 1863 ; Second Lieutenant Fifty- 
Ninth Regiment, Oct. 22, 1863 ; First 
Lieutenant, March 4, 1864. 

George G. Nichols. Seventh Unattached Company 
Infantry. First Lieutenant, May 6, 
1864, Fourth Heavy Artillery, First 
Lieutenant, Aug. 18, 1864. 

21, 1862, in Co. A, First Heavy Artillery; appointed Quartermaster-Ser- 
geant March i, 1862 ; detached in August, and ordered to report to Colonel 
J. Dimmock, commanding First U. S. Artillery at Fort Warren, as Commis- 
sary-Sergeant. 



LIST OF. OFFICERS. 243 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS. 
George A. Chipman. Sixth Massachusetts. July 20, 1864. 
Jacob M. Ellis. Second Massachusetts Battery. 

Jan. 8, 1865. 
GuRDON McKay. Twenty - Second Massachusetts 

Regiment Infantry. Oct. i, 1861. 
Charles H. Stevens. First Massachusetts Cavalry. Jan. 

2, 1864. 

BREVET LIEUTENANTS. 

Edward W. Kendall. Seventeenth Massachusetts Regi- 
ment. Brevet First Lieutenant, Sept. 
2, 1864. 

George W. Lynde. Seventeenth Massachusetts Regi- 
ment. Brevet Second Lieutenant, 
Dec. 31, 1864. 

ASSISTANT SURGEON. 
Samuel Ingalls, M. D. Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry. 
Jan, II, 1864.^ 

OFFICERS IN THE NAVY. 

N. Mayo Dyer. Acting Master's Mate. May 2, 1862 ; 
Acting Ensign, May 20, 1863 ; Act- 
ing Master, Jan. 12, 1864; Acting 
Lieutenant, April 22, 1865 ; Lieuten- 
ant in Regular Navy, March 12, 1868. 

Edward A. Siviall. Acting Ensign, June 16, 1862; 
Acting Master, Feb. 22, 1865. 

James F. Perkins. Acting Ensign, Nov. 14, 1862. 

William A. Fuller. Third Assistant Engineer, March 
23, 1864. 

' Was Acting Assistant-Surgeon U. S. A. in Lincoln General Hospital, 
Washington, D. C, and U. S. General Hospital, at Portsmouth Grove, R. I., 
from Dec. 1S62 tu Jan. i, 1864. 



244 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL, 

ALPHABETICAL ROLL OF 



Names. 


Regiment, 


Company. 


Rank. 


A. 








Alclridge, William H. . 


59 


F 


Private. 


Anderson, John H. L, 


8 


E 


(< 


Anderson, Leonard B, . 


44 


I 


<( 


Andrews, Edwin A. 


2d Bat. 




Corporal. 


Arnold, Charles H. 


15 


A 


Private. 


B. 

Barnard, John M., Jr. . 


42 


G 


Private. 


Barrett, Charles , . 


42 


G 


<( 


Barrett, Charles L. 


42 


G 


(( 


Barron, Elliot F. . . 


50 


E 


(( 


Barron, Henry . . . 


22 


G 


Wagon'r. 


Barry, Garrette . . . 


28 


A 


Private. 


Barry, John .... 


59 


A 


« 


Barry, Royal P. . . . 


45 


D 


Serge'nt. 


Barry, William F. . , 


13 


A 


Private. 


Beaman, William . . 


Navy 




Seaman. 


Bickford, Nelson W. . 


38 


I 


Private. 


( 


5 


B 


<< 


Batchelder, George W. < 


22 


G 


Serge'nt. 


( 


32 


C 


I St Lieut. 


Boardman, Charles . . 


42 


G 


Private. 


Bodwell, Henry A. . • 


22 
Navy 


G 


« 
Seaman. 


Bogle, Archibald • j 


17 
35U.S.C.T. 


I 


2d Lieut. 
Bvt. Col. 


Bosson, Samuel . . . 


Navy 




Seaman. 


Boyd, Robert . . . 


19 


A 


Private. 



ROLL OF SOLDIERS. 
SOLDIERS FROM MELROSE. 



HS 



Term of Enlistment. 


Discharged. 


Remarks. 


Three years. 
One hundred days. 


Expiration of service. 
With Regiment. 


Non-resident. 


Nine months. 


a 




Three years. 


Expiration of service. 
<< 


Non-resident. 


Nine months. 


With Regiment. 


Prisoner, Texas. 


Three years. 


Expiration of service. 
« 


Non-resident. 


Nine months. 
Three years. 

« 


With Regiment. 
Expiration of service. 


Killed,Antietam 
Sept. 17, 1862. 
Substitute for 

Geo. W. Heath. 


Three months. 


DisabiUty. 
With Regiment. 


Re-enlisted. 


Three years. 


Close of war. 


Prisoner, Libby. 
Re-enlisted. 


Nine months. 


With Regiment. 


Prisoner, Texas. 


Three years. 




Re-enlisted. 


« 


Expiration of service. 

For promotion. 

Close of war. 


Wd.Pris.,Ander- 
sonville. Now in 


Three years. 


Expiration of service. 


U. S. Army. 
Non-resident. 


« 


(( 


i( 



246 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Names, 



Brand, Nathan H. 



Brandon, Edward A. 
Bridges, Henry . 
Brierly, James 
Brimmer, Daniel 
Brown, George . 
Brown, Jonas G. 



Brown, Robert . . 
Brown, Thomas . . 
Bryant, Thomas O. 
Buckley, James . . 
Buffum, Adelbert A. 
Burke, Patrick . . 
Burnham, Oliver R. 
Burnham, Paschal E. 
Burns, Francis . . 
Burtwell, Thomas . 
Bush, Henry . . . 

Buttrick, John W. . 



Carlisle, John . . . 
Chambers John. . . 
Chandler, Roswell W, 
Chapin, Joseph A. , 

Chase, Ede K. . . 
Cheever, Augustus L. 
Cherain, Charles 

Chipman, George A. 



Regiment. 


Company. 


9th Bat. 




2d Cav. 


I 


42 


G 


5 th U.S. Cav. 


B 


iithU. S. I. 




50 


E 


II 




5th U.S. Cav. 


I 


42 


G 


Vet. R. C. 




24 


B 


2d Cav. 


D 


6 


A 


42 


G • 


39 


I 


19 




54 




42 


G 


18 


E 


28 




ist Cav. 


G 


9th Bat. 




5 


A 


3d H. Art. 


C 


5th U.S. Cav. 




45 


D 


6 


A 



Rank, 



Private. 



Corporal. 
Private. 



Corporal. 



Private, 



2d Lieut. 



ROLL OF SOLDIERS. 



247 



Term of Enlistment, 



Three years. 



Nine months. 

Three years. 
<( 

(1 
Nine months. 

Three years. 

Nine months. 
Three years. 



One hundred days 
Nine months. 
Three years. 



Nine months. 



Three years. 



Nine months. 

Three years. 
(< 

Nine months. 
One hundred days. 



Discharged. 



Remarks. 



Expiration of service. 
Expiration of service, 



Expiration of service 

With Regiment. 
Expiration of service. 



With Regiment. 

DisabiHty. 

Expiration of service 



With Regiment. 



Expiration of service. 
<< 

DisabiHty. 
For promotion. 

With Regiment. 

DisabiHty. 

Expiration of service. 

With Regiment. 



Died at Wash- 
ington, D. C, 
March 6, 1864. 
Non-resident. 
Non-res. des'tr. 
Non-resident. 

Sub. J.C.Howes. 

Died at Baton 

Rouge, La., June 

18, 1863. 

Non-resident. 

Prisoner, Texas. 
Non-resident. 

Non-res. des'tr. 



Non-resident. 



Died Feb. 23/63. 
Prisoner, Texas. 



Non-resident. 

Hos. Steward, 
U. S. Army. 

Non-resident. 



248 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Names. 


Regiment. 


Company. 


Rank. 


Clark, Frederick F. 


42 


G 


Private. 


Clark, James .... 


2d Cav. 


C 


<( 


Clark, Symonds . . . 


4th U.S. Art. 


A 


ti 


Colbert, Thomas . . 


5th U.S. Cav. 




it 


Condon, James . . . 


5th U.S. Cav. 




Drum'er. 


Conway, Thomas . . 


Vet. R. C. 




Private. 


Corson, Frederick U. . 


42 


G 


<( 


Cowan, Thomas . . 


1 2th U. S. I. 


I 


<< 


Cox, James P. . . , 


50 


E 


<( 


Crane, William P., Jr. 


48 


D 


<t 


Creeley, William . . 


9 


E 


(( 


Crocker, John H. . . 


13 


A 


(< 


Crocker, Joseph C. 


44 


I 


Private. 


Crockett, Albert W. . 


17 


K 


" 


Crockett, George F. . 


3d Bat. 




(( 


Cronk, Sydnia . . . 


19 


C 


(( 


Currier, Henry . . . 


3d U. S. Art. 


I 


It 


Currier, John H. . . 


17 


A 


<( 


Cutting, William H. Jr. 


45 


D 


(( 


D. 








Darley, Caspar . . . 


3d U. S. Art. 




Private. 


Davis, Edmund W. 


22 


G 


Corporal. 


Davis, James L. . . j 


42 
7thUn.Co.I. 


G 


Private. 


Davis, John E. . . . 


42 


G 


ft 


Davis, John W. . . . 


3d H. Art. 


E 


<< 


Davis, Loami G. • • 1 


33 
3d H. Art. 


C 
F 




Dawes, Ambrose . . 


13 


A 


(( 



ROLL OF SOLDIERvS. 



249 



Term of Enlistment. 


Discharged. 


Remarks. 


Nine months. 


With Regiment. 


Prisoner, Texas. 


Three years. 


Expiration of service. 


Non-resident. 
« 


Three years. 


Expiration of service. 

li 


Non-resident. 


Nine months. 


With Regiment. 


Prisoner, Texas. 


Three years. 


Expiration of service. 


Non-resident. 


Nine months. 


With Regiment. 




(( 


(< 


Non-resident. 


Three years, 


Expiration of service. 


(( 


(( 


Disability. 




Nine months. 


With Regiment. 




Three years. 




Re-enhsted. 

Prisoner. Starv'd 

at Andersonville 

Aug. I, 1864. 


<< 


Disabihty. 


Re-enhsted on 
Mansfield quota. 


« 


Expiration of service. 
11 


Non-resident. 


« 


Disabihty. 




Nine months. 


With Regiment. 




Three years. 


Expiration of service. 


Non-resident. 


a 


Disabihty. 


Pris., Belle Isle. 
Died July 22' '64. 


Nine months. 


With Regiment. 


Prisoner, Texas. 


Ninety days. 


i( 




Nine months. 


« 


Prisoner, Texas. 


Three years. 




Non-res., des'tr. 


i( 


Disabihty. 


Re-enlisted. 


(I 


Expiration of service. 
1 (< 


\A7r1 Anti<afoTr\ 



Sept. 17, 1862. 



32 



250 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Names. 


Regiment. 


Company. 


Rank. 


Dawes, Richard C. 


44 


H 


Private. 


Deshon, Francis . . 


38 


K 


(( 


Devine, John , . . 


3d U. S. Cav. 


I 


(( 


Dix, Joseph O. . . . 


50 


E 


(( 


Domenico, Bilotto . . 


5th U.S. Cav. 




<( 


Donagan, Maurice . . 


23 


K 


« 


Dorring, John . . . 


45 


I 


(( 


Double, Edmund B. 


42 


G 


<< 


Drayton, J. Spencer 


35U.S.C.T. 




Captain. 


Drew, Wilham H. . . 


29 


F 


Private, 


Dufify, Bernard . . . 


Vet. R. C. 




<< 


Dunn, Dennis . . . 


5th U.S. Cav. 


D 


n 


Dyer, N. Mayo • • • j 


13 

Navy. 


A 


Lieut. 


E. 


Navy. 


Sabine. 


Seaman. 


Earl, William H. . .] 


39 


G 


Private. 


( 


Navy. 


Mendota. 


Seaman. 


Eastman, William H. . 


2d Bat. 




Private. 


Eddy, Orrin .... 


3d H. Art 




u 


Ellis, Alvan T. . . . 


13th Bat. 




Corp'l. 


Ellis, Jacob M. . . . 


2d Bat. 




2d Lieut. 


Emerson, James G. . ( 


42 


G. 


Private. 


7thUn.Co. I. 




(< 


Emerson, James W. 


38 


K 


(( 


Emerson, Joseph S. 


7th Un.Co. I. 




<( 


Esbeck, Charles . . 


3d H. Art. 




(t 


Evans, Thomas C. . . 


45 


D. 


it 


F. 

Fargo, Charles O. . . 


3d H. Art. 


F 


Private. 


Farrell, Michael . . 


50 


E 


(( 



ROLL OF SOLDIERS. 



IS I 



Term of Enlistment. 



Nine months. 
Three years. 

Nine months. 
Three years. 

Nine months. 
<( 

Three years. 



One year. 
Three years. 



Nine months. 
Ninety days. 
Three years. 
Ninety days. 
Three years. 
Nine months. 



Three years. 
Nine months. 



Discharged. 



Remarks. 



With Regiment. 
<( 

Expiration of service, 

With Regiment. 

Expiration of service. 
(( 

With Regiment. 
<< 

Disabihty. 

Expiration of service, 

« 
To enter Navy. 



Expiration of service. 

Transferred. 
Expiration of service. 



With Regiment. 



Disabihty. 



Disabihty. 
With Regiment, 



Non-resident. 

Non-resident. 
Non-res., des'tr. 

Non-resident. 
Wd. Pris., Texas. 
Afterwards Pay- 
master, Rank of 
Major. 

Non-resident. 



Now in Regular 
Service. 



Re-enhsted. Wd. 
at Hagerstown, 

Md. 
Prisoner, Texas. 

Non-resident. 
Non-res., des'tr. 

Re-enhsted. 
Prisoner, Texas. 



Non-resident. 
Wd. Kinston, 
Dec. 14, 1862. 



252 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Names, 



Ferguson, John . 
Fimeyer, Philip . 
Fisher, George W. 
Foss, George A. 
Foss, James T. . 

Frank, WilHam . 
Freeland, Joseph V 
Frisby, John . . 
Fuller, George P. 
Fuller, Henry F. 

Fuller, William A. 

Ferguson, John . 

G. 

Gallagher, Edward 
Gallagher, John . 
Gallagher, Richard 
Gillispie, John 



Goericke, Frederic . . 
Goffeney, Robert . . 
Green, Augustus 

Greene, Martin . 

Grover, Andrew J. . 

Grover, George W., Jr. . 
Grover, John C. . . 
Grover, William W. 



Regiment. 



39 
8th U. S.I. 

17 

45 
45 

SthU.S.Cav. 
45 
59 
50 
17 

Navy. 
45 



SthU.S.Cav, 

50 

99N.Y. Reg 

2d Cav. 



U. S. Cav. 

8th U. S. I. 

22 



Company. 



22 


G 


3d H. Art. 


C 


3d H. Art. 


C 


17 


K 


5 


K 



I 

K 

A 

I 

D 

F 

A 
A 
E. 

A 

Ft. Don- 

elson. 

I 



D. 
F 
G 
D 



K 
G 



Rank. 



Private. 



Music'n. 
Private. 



3d Ass't 
Eng'r. 
Private. 



Private. 



ROLL OF SOLDIERS. 



253 



Term of Enlistment. 


Discharged. 


Remarks. 


Three years. 


Expiration of service. 
<< 


Non-resident. 


<( 


DisabiUty. 




Nine months. 


With Regiment. 


Non-resident. 


<( 


<< 


Wd. Kinston, 
Dec. 14, 1862. 


Three years. 


Expiration of service. 


Non-resident. 


Nine months. 


With Regiment. 


« 


Three years. 


Expiration of service. 


t( 


Nine months. 


With Regiment. 




Three years. 




Died at Baltimore, 
Md.,Oct. 6, 1 86 1. 


One year. 


Expiration of service. 




Nine months. 


With Regiment. 


Non-resident. 


Three years. 


Expiration of service. 


Non-resident. 


Nine months. 




Non-res., des'tr. 


Three years. 


« 




(( 


• 


Non-res., died 

from wounds, July 

20, 1864. 


« 


<( 


Non-resident. 

it 


n 




Killed, Bcthcsda 
Ch.Va.,June3,'64. 


« 




Died from w'nds, 
Aug. 16, 1862. 


« 


DisabiUty. 


Re-enlisted. 




Witli Regiment. 




<< 


Expiration of service. 


« 


One hundred days. 


With Regiment. 





254 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Names. 



H. 

Hagan, John J. 
Haggerty, Daniel . 
Halpine, Bartholomew 
Hamilton, Robert . 
Hammond, George 



Hanigan, John . 
Hare, Andrew . 
Harrington, Charles 
Harris, John . . 
Harris, Samuel . 

Harris, William . 
Hart, Abner B. . 
Harvey, Franklin 
Hawkes, John 
Hayes, James 
Haynes, Joseph W 
Hecker, Charles F. 
Heton, John . 
Hinckley, George H 
Hollis, Henry P. 
Howard, Avery B. 
Howard, James R. 

Howe, Francis E. 
Hughes, James . 
Hyde, George S. 

I. 

Ireson, Alonzo D. 
Ireson, David A. 
Ingalls, Samuel . 



Regiment. 


Company. 


Vet. R. C. 




59 


A 


59 


B 


50 


E 


3d H. Art. 


C 


Navy. 


Juniata. 


32 


C 


48 


G 


50 


E 


45 


I 


71U.S.C.T. 




2d Cav. 


H 


44 


G 


Navy. 


Miami. 


50 


E 


U. S. Cav. 




17 


K 


5th U.S. Cav. 




42 


G 


20 


A 


2d Cav. 


H 


3d Bat. 




38 


K 


2d Bat. 




3d Cav. 


G 


42 


G 


42 


G 


42 


G 


5th Cav. 





Rank. 



Private. 



Seaman. 

Private. 

Serg't. 

Private. 



Seaman. 
Private. 



Music'n. 
Private. 



Corp'l. 
Private. 

Serg't. 
Private. 



Private. 
Music'n. 

Ass't 
Surgeon. 



ROLL OF SOLDIERS. 



255 



Term of Enlistment. 



Three years. 
« 

Nine months. 
Three years. 

(( 

Nine months. 
« 

Three years. 



Nine months. 
Two years. 
Nine months. 
Three years. 



Nine months. 
Three years. 



Nine months. 



Nine months. 



Discharged. 



Remarks. 



Expiration of service 

DisabiHty. 

Expiration of service, 

With Regiment. 

Transferred. 

Expiration of service. 
<< 

With Regiment. 



Expiration of service, 



With Regiment. 
Expiration of service. 

With Regiment. 
Expiration of service. 



With Regiment. 
Expiration of service, 



DisabiHty. 
« 

With Regiment. 

With Regiment. 

« 

Resigned. 



Non-resident. 



Non-resident. 

Rep. Recruit for 

David Fairbanks. 

Non-res., des'tr. 



Non-resident. 

Re-enhsted. 

Non-resident. 

Prisoner, Texas. 

Non-resident. 



Died at Melrose, 
Aug. 16, 1864. 

Non-res., des'tr. 
Prisoner, Texas. 



Prisoner, Texas. 



256 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Names. 


Regiment. 


Company. 


Rank. 


J. 

Jackson, Henry M. 


59 


B 


Private. 


Jackson, Jacob F. . . 


16 


F 


ti 


Jackson, William H. . 


39 


G 


n 


Jackson, William P. 


13 


A 


<l 


Jenkins, George . . 


59 


A 


a 


Johnson, William A. . 


59 


B 


11 


Johnson, William H. , 


54 




a 


Jones, Charles S. . . 


39 


G 


({ 


Jones, Davis . . . . ( 

1 


58U.S.C.T. 




<( 


Jones, Henry H. . . 


13 


A 


Corp'l. 


Judkins, Roland C. 


42 


G 


Wag'nr, 


Junkins, Edwin W. 


45 


D 


Private. 


K. 








Kelley, Patrick . . . 


38 


I 


Private. 


Kendall, Edward W. . 


17 


A 


Bvt. I Lt. 


Kennelly, James A. 


38 


I 


Corp'l. 


Kennerk, John . . . 


SthU.S.Cav. 


B 


Private. 


Kenniston, Charles , < 


38 


I 


Music'n, 


( 

Kilby, Theophilus , . 


13 


A 


Private. 


King, David H. . . . 


2d Cav. 


K 


<( 


King, George L. . . 


13 


A 


(( 


King, John S. . . , 


SthU.S.Cav. 


F 


(( 


Kingdom, John , . . 


Navy. 


Tioga. 


Seaman. 


Kingman, William W. 


50 


E 


Private. 


Knights, Henry C. . . 


50 


E 


<( 


Kober, Charles . . , 


SthU.S.Cav. 




" 


Koeppen, John . . . 


2d U. S. I. 


K 


(( 


Kohler, Charles . . 


Navy. 




Seaman. 


Krantz, Frederick W. 


33 


C 


Private. 



ROLL OF SOLDIERS. 



257 



Term of Enlistment. 


Discharged. 


Remarks. 


Three years. 


Expiration of service. 
Disability. 


Non-resident. 




Expiration of service. 


Non-resident. 
« 


« 


i( 


« 


« 

« 
Nine months. 


« 
« 

With Regiment. 


Vet. Res. Corps. 
Rep. Recruit for 
Daniel Russell. 
Pris., Belle Isle. 
Prisoner, Texas. 


Three years. 
« 

« 


With Regiment. 
Expiration of service. 

Disability. 
Expiration of service. 

With Regiment. 

Disability. 
Expiration of service. 


Non-resident. 

« 

Wounded, Port 

Hudson, June 14, 

1863. 

Non-resident. 


Three years. 
Nine months. 
Nine months. 

Three years. 


Expiration of service. 

With Regiment. 
<( 

Expiration of service. 
« 


Non-resident. 
« 

« 
« 


(( 


« 


« 


(( 


« 


Prisoner, twice. 



33 



258 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Names. 


Regiment. 


Company. 


Rank. 


L. 

Lafferty, James . . . 


Navy. 




Seaman. 


Lahey, John .... 


Vet. R. C. 




Private. 


Lalley, Thomas J. . 


Navy. 




Seaman, 


Lamb, John R. . . . 


a 




it 


Lane, Francis W. . . 


30 


B 


Private. 


Lane, John .... 


Navy. 




Seaman. 


Lange, Andrew . . . 


a 




(( 


Launzen, Christian 


(( 




(< 


Lee, George E. . . . 


a 




'< 


Leeds, Samuel . . . 


16 


C 


Serg't. 


Leighton, WilHam F. . 


45 


D 


Private. 


Lemont, Henry . . . 


Navy. 


Maratanza. 


Seaman. 


Lever, Richard . . . ( 


59 


A 


Private. 


Lewis, Thomas . . . 


Navy. 


Mahaska. 


Seaman. 


Lewis, Walter H. . . 


59 


B 


Private. 


Liffin, James . . . 


29 


F 


Drum'r, 


Lindsey, Joseph . . \ 






Private, 


Littlefielo, Gushing W. 


24 


B 


<( 


Lombard, Charles E. . 


Navy. 




Seaman. 


Long, John .... 


II 


K 


Private. 


Longwood, John . . 


19 




'< 


Ludirzen, George S. . 


Navy. 




Seaman. 


Lutz, William . . . 


i2th U. S. L 


B 


Bugler, t 


Lyall, David S. . . . 


8 


E 


Private. 


Lyman, Henry H. . . 


50 


E 


u 


Lynde, Amos W. . . ( 


42 


G 


<< 


i 


7th Un.Co. L 




Corp'l. 


Lynde, Benjamin . . } 


38 


K 


Private. 


Lynde, Charles B. . . 


42 


G 


K 


Lynde, George W. . . \ 


17 


A 


Bvt, 2 Lt, 



ROLL OF SOLDIERS. 



259 



Term of Enlistment. 



Three years. 



Nine months. 
Three years. 



One hundred days. 

Nine months. 
(( 

Ninety days. 

Three years. 

Nine months. 
Three years. 



Discharged. 



Expiration of service, 



With Regiment. 
Expiration of service, 

Expiration of service 



Disability. 
Expiration of service, 



With Regfiment. 



Remarks. 



Non-resident. 



Re-enlisted. 

Non-resident. 
K'ld., Spottsylva- 
nia, May 1 2, 1 864. 

Non-resident. 



Sub. for Henry 

W. Barrett. 

Wounded. 

Non-resident. 



With Regiment. 
Expiration of service. 



Prisoner, Texas. 

Died at Baton 
Rouge, La., Aug. 

^18, 1863. 

Prisoner, Texas. 

Died at Melrose. 

Jan. 30, 1866. 



260 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Names. 


Regiment. 


Company. 


Rank. 


Lynde, Sherman . . 


1st Cav. 


G 


Corp'l. 


M. 








Macey, James . . . 


13 


E 


Private. 


Macey, John S. , . . ( 


17 


A. 


(< 


1 


Navy. 


Philippi. 


Seaman. 


Marra, James . . . 


59 


D 


Private. 


Marshall, James . . 


45 


D 


« 


Marshall, Samuel . , 


42 


G 


<( 


Marston, James M. 


42 


G 


(( 


Martin, George T. . . j 


38 


K 


istLieut. 


( 


4th H. Art. 


C 


« 


Martin, Jeremiah Jr. , ( 


Navy. 


Tritonia. 


Paymas- 


1 






ters' Cl'k. 


Martin, William H. 


38 


K 


Serg't. 


McAllister, Daniel W. 


22 


G 


Private. 


McAllister, George H. 


50 


^ E 


u 


McDonald Angus . . 


20 


A 


(( 


McKay, Gurdon . . ( 


5 


B 


ti 


22 


G 


2d Lieut 


McLaughlin, Frank M. 


Navy. 


Kearsarge. 


Yeoman. 


McLaughlin, Hiram . 


6 


A 


Private. 


McLaughlin, George W. 


45 


D 


<( 


McMahan, Philip . . 


17 


I 


(( 


Mitchell, George . : 


Navy. 


Tioga. 


Seaman. 


Moran, Bernard . . . 


5th U.S. Cav. 




Private. 


Moran, Thomas . , . 


Vet. R. C. 




« 


Morrison, Charles H. . ( 


22 


G 


(( 


38 


I 


Serg't. 


Morrison, Seth . . . 


4 


F 


Private. 


13 


A 


(( 


Morse, George J. . < 


^ 


2dU.S.C.T. 
59 


G 


2d Lieut. 
istLieut. 



ROLL OF SOLDIERS. 



261 



Term of Enlistment. 


Discharged. 


Remarks. 


Three years. 


Expiration of service. 




Three years. 


Expiration of service. 




(( 


DisabiHty. 


Re-enHsted. 


One year. 


Expiration of service. 




Three years. 


(( 


Non-resident. 


Nine months. 


With Regiment. 




« 


<< 


Prisoner, Texas. 


(( 




Non-res., des'tr. 


Three years. 


DisabiHty. 


Died at Boston, 


One year. 




March 13, 1865. 


(( 


Expiration of service. 




Three years. 


DisabiHty. 




Nine months. 


With Regiment. 




Three years. 


Disability. 




Three months. 


With Regiment. 


Re-enHsted. 


Three years. 


Dismissed. 
Expiration of service. 




One hundred days. 


With Regiment. 




Nine months. 


ti 




Three years. 


Expiration of service. 


Re-enHsted. 




(( 
u 


Non-resident. 


« 


DisabiHty. 


Re-cnHsted. 
Deserter. 


Three months. 


With Regiment. 


Wd. Scc'nd BuH 


Three years. 


DisabiHty. 


Run, Aug. 30/62. 


(( 


(( 


Wd,Port"Hudson, 


« 




July 5/63. Killed 
Spottsylvania, 
May 12, 1864. 



262 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Names. 


Regiment. 


Company. 


Rank. 


Morse, Sydney B. 2d . 


13 


D 


Corp'l. 


Mullcott, Adolphus 
Munn, Thomas J. . . 


59 
13 


A 
A 


Private. 


Murphy, Patrick . . 
Myars, John .... 


Vet. R. C. 
45 


I 




N. 

Nichols, George G. . < 

Nichols, Smith W., Jr. 
Nichols, William R. . 
Nolan, Thomas . . . 
Noonan, Edward . . 
Noyes, George O. . | 

0. 


42 

7thU.C0.Inf. 

4th H. Art. 

Navy. 

50 
4th U.S. Art. 
5thU.S.Cav. 

38 


G 
K 

Shenandoah 

D 

A 

K 


Serg't. 

istLieut. 
<< 

Lieut. 
Music'n. 

Private. 

<< 

Corp'l. 








O'Donaghue John . . 
O'Leary, Timothy . . 
O'Regan, Michael . . 
Otslott, Frederick . . 

P. 

Page, Moses S. . . . 
Parsons, Wilham . . 


50 
U. S. Marines. 

59 
8th U. S. I. 


E 

A 
K 


Private. 
<< 

<( 


.6 
50U.S.C.T. 


E 


Private. 


Peabody, Francis 

< 


22 
17 


G 
K 


Orderly. 


V 

Peabody, Torrey . . 
Peabody, Torrey, Jr. . 


22 
17 


G 
K 


Private. 



ROLL OF SOLDIERS. 



203 



Term of Enlistment. 



Three years. 



Nine months. 

Ninety days. 

One year. 

Nine months. 
Three years. 



Nine months. 

Four years. 

Three years. 



One hundred days, 
Three years. 



Uischarged. 



Remarks. 



Expiration of service, 



With Refriment. 



With Regiment. 
Expiration of service 



Expiration of service. 

Disabihty. 
Expiration of service. 



With Regiment. 
Expiration of service 

Disability. 



Disabihty. 
Expiration of service. 



Died at Washing- 
ton, Sept. 16, '62. 

Non-resident. 

Wd. Gettysburg, 

July I, 1863. Vet. 

Res. Corps. 

Non-resident. 



As Acting Lieut. 
Co. E. 

On Col. King's Staff. 

U. S. Navy. 
Non-resident. 



Wounded, Port 

Hudson, June 

14, 1863. 

Non-res., des'tr. 
Non-resident. 



Rep. Recruit for 
Dexter Bryant. 

Re-enlisted. 

Re-enlisted. Died 

at New Berne, N. 

C, Oct. 3, 1864. 



264 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Names. 


Regiment. 


Company. 


Rank. 


Pearson, William H. . 


3d U. S. Art. 




Private. 


Peaseley, Charles D. . 


59 


D 


<t 


Pemberton, Lewis E. . 


61 


F 


(I 


Penn, Isaac .... 


4th U.S. Art. 


A 


(( 


Perkins, Benjamin W. 


59 


B 


(( 


Perkins, James F. . . 


Navy. 




Act. Ensiga 


Perkins, John, Jr. . ( 


45 


D 


Private. 


Perse, William A. . . 


8th U. S. L 


F 


Private. 


Pike, Jacob F. . . . 


39 


G 


" 


Pilling, James L. 


60 


G 


« 


Pratt, Daniel S . . 


1st Cav. 


G 


« 


Pratt, Henry W. . . 


8 


E 


<< 


Prentice, Charles . , 


50 


E 


<( 


Prescott, Horace . . 


9th Bat. 




(( 


Prince, Albert G. . , 


18 


E 


(( 


Q. 








Ouinn, John E. . . 


32 


A 


Private. 


Quinn, John H. . . . 


99th N. Y. 


B. 


Private. 


Ouinn, Patrick . . . 


8 


E 


« 


R. 








Rain, William G. . . 


8th U. S. L 


D 


Corp'l. 


Reardon, Lawrence 


3d H. Art. 


K 


Private. 


Reynard John H. . ( 


Navy. 




Seaman. 


Rice, George . . . 


38 


F 


Private. 




48 


D 


Music'n. 


Richardson, Alfred C. I 








Richardson, George E. i 
Richardson, John P. . 


38 


K 


Private. 


17 


K 


i( 



ROLL OF SOLDIEKS, 



265 



Term of Enlistment. 


Discharged. 


Remarks. 


Three years. 
<< 


Expiration of service. 


Non-resident. 
« 


One year. 


« 




Three years. 


« 


Non-resident. 

ti 


It 
Nine months. 


« 
Disabihty. 


Wd., Kinston, 
Dec. 14, 1862. 


Three years. 


Expiration of service. 

It 


Non-resident. 


One hundred days. 


Witli Regiment. 




Three years. 


Expiration of service. 




One hundred days. 


With Regiment. 




Nine months. 


<< 




Three years. 


Expiration of service. 




« 


Disabihty. 


Wd. Second Bull 
Run, July 30, '62. 


Three years. 


Disabihty. 


Re-enlisted on 


^ 




quota of Boston. . 


(< 


Expiration of service. 




One hundred days. 


With Regiment. 




Three years. 
« 


Expiration of service. 
« 


Non-resident. 


« 


« 


Sub. for James 0. 
Lynde. 


t( 


« 


Non-resident. 


Nine months. 




Non-res. Died at 

Baton Rouge, La., 

Aug. 8, 1863. 


Three years. 




Died at Salisbury, 
N. C, Nov. 3, '64. 


(( 


Expiration of semce. 


Rc-enlisted. 



34 



266 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Names. 


Regiment. 


Company. 


Rank. 


Richardson, William H. 


3d H. Art. 


c 


Private. 


Riley, James .... 


iithU. S. I. 




(( 


Riley, William . . . 


nth U. S. L 




(( 


Roberts, Charles H. . 


44 


E 


u 


Robertson, William 


2d Cav. 


D 


« 


Rowell, Stephen P, ( 


i8 


H 


<( 


i 


50 


D 


Serg't. 


Ryan, James .... 


19 




Private. 


Ryan, Michael . . . 

S. 
Sassard, Augustus . . 


59 


F 


« 


13 


A 


Private. 


Sawyer, Obadiah . . 


39 


I 


<< 


Seafferman, Henry . . 


5th U.S. Cav. 


K 


« 


Seavey, Leonard C. 


2d Bat. 




(( 


Shannon, Martin . . 


2?, 


K 


(( 


Shelton, Albert F. . j 


13 


A 


« 


Shelton, Charles W. i 
Shelton, John P. . ( 
Shelton, Thomas . j 


13 


A 


Serg't. 


13 


A 


Private. 


50 


E 


Private. 


8 


E 


<< 


Shrekler, Frederick 


8th U. S. L 


D 


<( 


Shrodenback, Joseph . 


5th U.S. Cav. 




(( 


Simms, Daniel . . . 


<( 




(( 


Simonds, Charles H. . 


50 


E 


u 


Simonds, Joseph F. ( 


13 


A 


<( 


3d Cav. 


D 


Captain. 


Simonds, Joseph R. 


17 


K 


« 


Simonds, Joseph W, ( 


44 


D 


Private. 


8 


E 


(( 


Sinclair, Thomas J. 


8th U. S. L 


B 


(( 


Singler, Louis . . . 


<< 


B 


(< 


Skinner, Charles E. 


5 th Bat. 




(( 



ROLL OF SOLDIERS. 



267 



Term of Enlistment. 


Discharged. 


Remarks. 


Three years. 


Expiration of service. 








Non-resident. 


Nine months. 


Disability. 




Three years. 




Non-res., des'tr. 


(( 


Disabihty. 


Re-enlisted. 


Nine months. 


With Regiment. 




Three years. 


Expiration of service. 


Non-resident. 


« 


« 


<( 



Three years. 



Nine months. 

One hundred days. 

Three years. 



Nine months. 
Three years. 



Nine months. 

One hundred days, 

Three years. 



Disability. 
Expiration of service. 



Disability. 
« 

General service. 
With Regiment. 

a 

Expiration of service. 

« 

With Regiment. 
Disability. 

Expiration of service. 

<( 

With Regiment. 
Expiration of service. 

n 

Disability. 



Non-resident. 



Wd., Antietam, 
Sept. 17, 1862. 
Wd., Antietam, 
Sept. 17, 1862. 
Killed, Antietam, 
Sept. 17, 1862. 
Re-enlisted. 

Non-resident. 



Re-enlisted. 
Wd. three times. 

Re-enlisted. 

Non-resident. 



268 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Names. 



SlocLimb, Henry W. , 
Small, Edward A. . . 
Smith, Thomas . . 

Smith, Wayland R. 
Souggroe, Timothy 
Spaulding, Henry H. . 
Spear, William S. . , 
Sprague, Samuel Jr. 

Stantial, Thomas B. . 
Starbuck, George M. . 
Stebbens, Thaddeus S. 
Stevens, Charles H. . 
Stevens, Thomas H. 

Stilphen, John E. 

Stone, Henry . . . 

Sumner, Stephen . . 
Sweetser, Thomas T. 

T. 

Tainter, George A. . 

Taltcrsall, Edward . . 
Tobey, Samuel . . 

Todd, Thomas . . . 
Tower, Benjamin . 



Turck, John . . 
Tucker, William L. 
Tyler, William N. 



Regiment. 


Company. 


30 


E 


Navy. 


Wabash. 


S 


B 


4th Bat. 




43 


A 


Vet. R. C. 




6 


A 


Vet. R. C. 




12 


A 


5 th Bat. 




26 . 


A 


39 


G 


ist Cav. 


G 


16 


A 


2d Bat. 




39 


G 


59 


G 


5 


H 


42 


G 


13 


A 


5th U.S. Cav. 


F 


9th Bat. 




48 


D 


38 


K 


3d H. Art. 


K 


9th Bat. 




8 





Rank. 



Private. 

Act. Master. 

Private. 



Corp'l. 

Artificer. 
Private. 

2d Lieut. 
Private. 



Corp'l. 
Serg't. 
Private. 



Private. 



Serg't. 
Corp'l. 



Private. 

Corp'l. 

Serg't. -Maj. 



%. 



ROLL OF SOLDIERS. 



269 



Term of Enlistment. 



Three years. 

Three months. 
Three years. 
Nine months. 
Three years. 
One hundred days 
Three years. 



Discharged. 



Nine months. 



Three years. 



Nine months. 
Three years. 



One hundred days 



Remarks. 



Expiration of service. 
<< 

With Regiment. 
Expiration of service. 

With Regiment. 
Expiration of service. 

With Regiment. 

Expiration of service. 

Disability. 

Abohshment of office. 
Expiration of service. 

Disabihty. 
Expiration of service, 



Expiration of service. 

Disability. 
With Regiment. 



Disability. 

Expiration of service. 
With Battery. 

With Regiment. 



Disability. 

With Battery. 

With Regiment. 



Re-enlisted. 
Re-enlisted. 

Non-resident. 

Non-resident. 
Wd., Antietam, 
Sept. 17, 1862. 

Non-resident. 

Wounded. 
Died at Boston, 
March 26, 1863. 
Died at Melrose, 
June 25, 1865. 
Wounded. Pris- 
oner, Libby. 

Wounded. Pris- 
oner, Texas. 

Wd., Antietam, 

Sept. 17, 1862. 

Non-resident. 
Wd., Gettysburg, 

July 2, 1863. 

Non-resident. 
Wounded, Cedar 

Creek, Oct. 19, 
1864. 

Non-resident. 

Also on S. Read- 
ing quota. 



270 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL, 



Names. 



Tyrrill, Andrew . , 

U. 

Upham, Charles H. 
Upham, Henry W. 

V. 

Vinton, Edwin A. . 

Vinton, Gray . . . 

W. 

Waitt, John R. . 
Wallace, John 
Walsh, Thomas 
Ward, Reuben D. 

Warren, Nathaniel 
Waters, Henry . 
Watts, Simon C. 
Weeks, Seymour 
Welden, George E. 
Wells, Charles A. 
Wharton, Joseph 
White, Charles L. 

Whitney, Edward H. 
Wilbur, William H. 

Wilde, Benjamin F. 
Wilkins, Charles B. 
Wilkinson, Robert . 
Williams, Charles J. 
Williams, George . 



Regiment. 



Navy. 



42 
60 



42 



6 

15 

Navy. 



Navy. 



1 1 

Navy. 
1st H. Art. 

13 

Navy. 

42 
Navy. 



Navy. 



Company. 



Rank. 



G 
G 



G 
E 
E 



A 



B 

George 
Mayhew 



Neipsic. 

I 
E 

D 

St. Law- 
rence. 
H 



St. Law- 
rence. 



Seaman. 



Private. 



Private. 



Private. 



Seaman. 



Private. 
Seaman. 
Private. 

Serg't. 
Seaman. 

Private. 

Seaman. 
(( 

Seaman. 



ROLL OF SOLDIERS. 



271 



Term of Enlistment. 


Discharged. 


Remarks. 


Three years. 


Expiration of service. 


Sub. for Daniel 
W. Wilcox. 


Nine months. 
One hundred days. 


With Regiment. 


Prisoner, Texas. 


Nine months. 
One hundred days. 


With Regiment. 
« 


Prisoner, Texas. 


One hundred days. 

Three years. 
« 


With Regiment. 
Expiration of service. 


Non-resident. 


« 


« 


(( 


« 


<( 


(( 


« 


(( 


<( 


« 


« 


(( 


(( 


« 


(( 


(( 


(( 


tt 


« 


(( 




(( 


t( 


<t 


<( 


« 


Wd., Warrenton 


(( 


« 


Junction. 


« 


« 


Non-resident. 


Nine months. 
Three years. 


Expiration of service. 


Deserter. 
Non-resident. 


It 


It 


(( 


t< 


t( 


(( 



2/2 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Names. 


Regiment. 


Company. 


Rank. 


Williams, Walter . . 


Navy. 




Seaman. 


Wilson, John .... 


.50 


F 


Private. 


Wilson, John . . . 


39 


I 


<( 


Wilson, Samuel . . ( 
Wilson, Thomas E. 


Navy. 




Seaman. 


(( 


Aries. 


(( 


Woodman, Robert . . 


t( 




(( 


Wyman, George W, . 


6 


A 


Private. 


Wyman, Weston . . 


6 


A 


(( 


Wyman, William . { 


5 


B 


(( 


24 


C 


« 


Y. 








Yeaton, George . . . 


29 


A 


Drum'er. 


York, Benjamin F. . 


56 


B 


Private. 


York, Josiah R. . . 


42 


G 






/thUn.Co. I. 






York, William B. . | 


42 


G 






7th Un. Co. I. 






Young, John W. . . 


59 


F 





MELROSE CITIZENS WHO SERVED 



Nances. 


Regiment. 

17th Mass. 


Company. 


Rank. 


Barrett, David A. . 




K 


Corp'l. 


Chambers, John L. 


1 


Navy. 


Morning 
Light. 


Master's 
Mate. 


Davis, Charles L. . 




8th Maine. 


E 


Private. 


Elliott, George W. . 




(< 


E 


■( 


Krantz, William F. 




33d Mass. 


C 


(( 




1 


Vet. R. C. 




li 


Macey, William H. 


) 


3d Maine. 


F 


It 


Martin, Charles H. 




4th Ms. H. A. 


C 


Corp'l. 


Thompson, John 




Navy. 


Kliodc Isl'd. 


Seaman. 



I 



ROLL OF SOLDIERS. 



273 



Term of Enlistment. 



Three years. 
Nine months. 
Three years. 



One hundred days 
<( 

Three months. 
Three years. 



Three years. 

Nine months. 
Ninety days. 
Nine months. 
Ninety days. 
Three years. 



Discharged. 



Expiration of service. 

Expiration of service. 
« 

<( 

With Regiment. 
<( 

it 
Expiration of service. 

Expiration of service, 
<( 

With Regiment. 
i{ 

<( 

<( 

Expiration of service. 



Remarks. 



Non-resident. 
Non-res., des'tr. 

Non-resident. 
Sub. for George 

Emerson 2d. 

Non-resident. 



Re-enHsted. 

Wounded. 

Re-enhsted. 



Non-resident. 

Pris., Danville. 

Prisoner, Texas. 

Prisoner, Texas. 

Non-resident. 



ON OTHER QUOTAS. 



Term of Enlistment. 


On what Quota. 


• Remarks. 


Three years. 


Maiden. 
Boston. 


Prisoner over 


(( 


Augusta, Me. 


two years. 


(( 


« 


Pris'r, 4 Months. 
Re-enlisted. 


tt 


Maiden. 


Re-enlisted. 


« 
« 


Douglass. 
Skowhegan, Me. 


Died June 13 '66. 

Died at Alexandria, 


One year. 


Franklin. 
Boston. 


Va., Aug, 30, 1862. 



35 



I 



I 



APPENDIX 



APPENDIX. 



CERTIFICATE OF A NON-RESIDENT RECRUIT. 

Boston, Dec. 20, A. D. 1862. 

I, William R. Riddle, a ist Lieutenant Twentieth Mass. 
Vols, in the military service of the United States, and duly author- 
ized to act as a Recruiting Officer, do hereby certify that I have, 
on the twentieth day of December, A. D. 1862, caused to be 
mustered into the military service of the United States, in Co. 
A, Twentieth Regiment, to serve for three years or during the 
war, unless sooner discharged, George H. Hinckley, to be 
applied upon the quota of the town of Melrose ; and that, to the 
best of my knowledge and belief, the said George H. Hinckley 
has not been previously reported to the Adjutant-General's 
office, and is not a resident of any other town or city in this 

Commonwealth. 

WM. R. RIDDLE, 

1st Lieutenant Twentieth Mass. Vols,, 

Recruiting Officer. 

B. 

FORM FOJl PAYMENT OF BOUNTY. 

No. 30. Melrose, Aug. 16, 1862. 

Mr. Caleb Howard, Town Treasurer. 

Sir : Pay to Joseph A. Chapin of Melrose, a recruit accepted 
and mustered into the service of the United States by Lieu- 
tenant Adams, for the Ninth Battery Massachusetts Volunteers, 
the sum of One Hundred Dollars bounty, as per order of the 



278 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

Town, passed July 28, 1862, he being a part of the quota of 
troops to be furnished by the Town of Mehose, for three years 
unless sooner discharged by proper authority. 

JOHN H. CLARK, 
WM. B. BURGESS, 
G. M. FLETCHER, 

Selectmen of Melrose. 

I hereby certify that I enlisted the above named Joseph A. 
Chapin into the Ninth Battery, and that he was mustered into 
the service of the United States, on the 29th day of July, 1862, 
by Lieutenant Adams, of the United States Army. 

ALEX. H. WHITAKER, 

Lieutenant Ninth Battery. 
This was indorsed as follows : 
No. 30. Melrose, Aug. 16, 1862. 

I, Joseph A. Chapin, hereby acknowledge to have received 

of the Town Treasurer of Melrose, One Hundred Dollars as 

bounty for enlistment in the service of the United States, as 

within. 

JOSEPH A. CHAPIN. 
Witness, William B. Burgkss. 

The form of payment of Bounty for the nine months' men 
differed from the above only in the date of Town action — Aug. 
21, 1862, — and the amount paid. One Hundred and Fifty 

Dollars. 

C. 

CERTIFICATE OF CONSENT TO THE ENLISTMENT OF A MINOR. 

I, Hiram McLaughlin, do certify, that I am the father of 
George W. McLaughlin, that he is nineteen years of age; and 
I do hereby freely give my consent to his enlisting as a soldier 
in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, for the period of nine 
months in the service of the United States. 

HIRAM Mclaughlin. 

Witness, RoYAL P. Barry. 
Dated at Melrose, this first clay of October, A. D. 1862. 



APPENDIX. 



279 



D. 

The following is a copy of the circular and list of the citizens 
of Melrose, liable to Draft in 1863, posted in our town by 
direction of Provost-Marshal Herrick. 



ENROLLMENT LIST, SIXTH DISTRICT MASSACHUSETTS. 

List of persons enrolled in Sub-District No. Nine, Town of 

Melrose. 
Any person herein enrolled may appear before the Board of 
Enrollment, at Lawrence, on the days of December, 1863, 

from eleven to one o'clock, and two to five o'clock, and have 
his name stricken off the List, if he can show to the satisfac- 
tion of the Board that he is not, and will not be at the time 
fixed for the next Draft, Jan. 5, 1864, liable to do Military 
duty on account of 

I. Alienage. 2. Non-residence. 3. Unsuitableness of age. 
4. Manifest permanent physical disability. 

Class I. 
A. 



Allen, John L. 
Allen, William H. 
Atwood, Sullivan C. 



Alden, David A. 
Astle, James 
Anderson, John H. L. 



Babb, Walter 
Banfield, Addison W. 
Barrett, Henry W. 
Barrett, James A. 
Barrett, Jonathan 
Bartlett, Nathaniel J. 
Biathrow, Franklin 
Biffin, James 



B. 

Bishop, Daniel H. 
Blaisdell, Charles H. 
Brackett, Gilbert A. 
Brown, George E. 
Brown, Laroy 
Browne, Orrin 
Bryant, Dexter 



28o 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Chase, Daniel L. 
Chase, Sanford W. 
Cheever, Augustus L. 
Coburn, Lucius 

Davis, Edmund W. 
Dodge, James W. 

Edmonds, Artemas B. 
Emerson, George W, 
Emerson, Joseph S, 

Fairbanks, Joseph A. 
Fargo, Charles O. 
Farnsworth, George W. 
Fernald, James H. 
Finnegan, Dennis 
Finnegan, Edward 



Cook, William 
Corson, George G. 
Crocker, John H. 

D. 
Donalavy, William 

E. 

Emerson, Richard W. 
Emery, Joshua Jr. 

F. 

Finnegan, William 
Fennerty, Thomas 
Freeman, Leander T. 
French, Alonzo 
Fuller, William A. 
Furneaux, Charles 



Gilmore, William M. 
Goodwin, Joseph 
Gordon, Curtis S. 
Gordon, William F. 
Goss, Elbridge H. 

Hammond, George 
Harris, Augustine 
Hawkins, John 
Hay ward, Daniel E. 
Hemmenway, William 
Henderson, John H. B. 
Hill, William L. 



Gould, Levi S. 
Greene, Benjamin F. 
Grover, Andrew J. 
Grover, George W. Jr. 
Grundy, William 



H. 



HoUahan, Lawrence 
Hopkins, James S. 
Howard, Caleb G. 
Howard, Otis 
Howe, Francis E. 
Howes, Jonathan C. 



APPENDIX. 



281 



Irvine, Fayette J. 

Jackson, William P. 

Keating, Thomas 
Keith, Charles E. 
Keyes, Silas 



Leonard, Heniy A. 
Littlehale, Henry A. 
Lord, Samuel 
Lyall, David S. 
Lunt, George G. 



Magoon, Sylvanus 
McCafferty, Michael A. 
McLenathan, Charles 
Merrick, Theodore B. 
Morcomb, Henry P. 



Newhall, Edward B. 
Newhall, Henry B. 

Parker, Edward 
Page, Moses S. 
Patterson, Alonzo 
Paul, William F. 
Peck, Oren H. 
Pierce, Ansel B. 
36 



K. 

Knight, Edwin F. 
Knights, Edward R, 
Knowles, Theodore L. 

L. 

Lynch, John B. 
Lynde, Charles A. 
Lynde, Daniel A. 
Lynde, James O. 
Lynde, Leonard 

M. 
Moseley, Randolph L. 
Morse, William 
Morse, William F. 
Murray, John 
Munn, Lawrence K. 

N. 
Norton, John R. 

P. 

Pierce, Robert W. 
Pollock, George W, 
Porter, Lucius L. D. 
, Pratt, Dexter 
Prentice, George 



282 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Quinn, Thomas 

Rankin, Frederick W. A. Jr. 
Richards, Aaron H. 
Richardson, Lewis H. 
Richardson, WiUiam H. 



Q. 

R. 

Ripley, Augustus 
Roberts, Joseph L. 
Robbins, Charles 
Robinson, Samuel A. 



Sanford, Joseph B. 
Sears, Elisha F. 
Shelton, Albert F. 
Shelton, Richard H. 
Shelton, Stephen W. 
Skinner, Glover 
Small, James M. 
Spinney, William K. 

Tainter, George A. 
Tay, Aaron 
Taylor, Marcus C. 
Taylor, William 
Thompson, John 

Upham, Albert 
Upham, Charles F. 
Upham, Osgood W. 

Vaughn, William W. 

Waitt, Charles A. 
AVarren, William 
Watson, Frank 
Wells, William H. 



Stantial, George C. 
Stantial, Thomas B. 
Stevens, Henry A. 
Stone, George F. 
Stone, William H. 
Stratton, William D, 
Smith, Rufus 
Sutton, Joseph P. B. 

T. 

Tower, John W. 
Tourtellot, Samuel M. 
Towner, Levi C. 
Trask, Albert 
Trott, Andrew P. 

U. 

Upham. Sylvanus 
Upham, Timothy 

V. 

W. 

Wilcox, Daniel W. 
Wilde, Joseph D. 
Woodward, George 
Wyman, William 



APPENDIX. 



283 



Adams, John Q. 

Baldwin, John 
Barker, Samuel 
Barrett, Augustus 
Bartlett, George W. 
Bickford, Ira H. 
Bird, Henry S. 
Boardman, George A. 
Boardman, William W. 



Class II. 
A. 



Avery, John Q. A, 
B. 

Brooks, Augustus 
Brown, Benjamin 
Bradford, Erastus F. 
Brown, Increase H. Jr, 
Brown, John 
Bugbee, Samuel S. 
Bryant, Napoleon B. 
Bufifum, Carlon 



Chapin, Calvin N. 
Clark, William 
Cleaveland, Nathan S. 
Cobb, John W. 
Cobb, Elisha W. 
Coburn, Lewis G. 
Conway, Daniel 

Davie, George 
Dow, Milo 



Coolidge, Charles G. 
Courriea, Charles M. 
Crowley, Jeremiah 
Curtis, Samuel 
Chase, Daniel G. 
Coffin, Galen 
Connell, James 

D. 

Dyer, John A. 



Edgerly, Obadiah S. 
Edgerly, Peter 



Emerson, George 2d. 
Emerson, Isaac Jr. 



Fessenden, George F. 

Gateley, John 
Gilman, Tristram 
Gooch, Daniel W. 



Foster, Daniel W. 

G. 

Goss, Allen C. 
Gould, Albert A. 
Greeley, William P. 



284 



THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 



Haley, Reuben F. 
Hamblet, James Jr. 
Hart, George 
Hawkins, Thomas 
Hayward, Jabez G. 
Heath, George W. 
Hemmenway, George 



H. 

Hicks, Walter 
Hill, David 
Hodges, James D. 
Hoeffncr, Lewis G. 
Holbrook, Joseph 
Horn, James 
Hudson, Jarvis P. 



Isburgh, Charles H. 
Jefferson, Daniel 

Kelley, Farnsworth 
Kendall, Samuel E. 
Kent, Elisha V. 



J- 



K. 



Kimball, Thomas J. 
Kirmes, Christopher 



Lane, Addison 
Lamson, William A. 
Leavitt, Rufus 
Little, Edmund B. 



Mansfield, George A. 
McCoubry, Thomas 
Mclntyre, Joseph 



Newhall, George 
Newhall, John 



Littlefield, Walter Jr. 
Loring, Martin B. 
Lynde, Alonzo V. 
Lynde, William O. 

M. 

Messenger, Charles A. 
Messenger, Frank A. 
Morton, Daniel O. 

N. 
Norton, Daniel Jr. 



Parker, Moses 
Pemberton, Calvin 
Perkins, Albert P. 



Perkins, John Jr. 
Poole, William F, 



APPENDIX. 



285 



Robbins, Charles G. 
Roberts, John K. 



R. 



Russell, Daniel 



Sales, Ephraim 
Sargent, Wingate P. 
Severence, Sargent F. 
Severy, Solomon 
Shepard, Thomas 



Sevvall, John S. 
Simonds, Charles H. 
Spaulding, Henry H 
Sprague, Alfred W. 
Stevens, Edgar M. 



Taylor, Fernando C. 
Terwillager, Lyell S. 

Upham, Benjamin R. 

Varney, Cyrus 
Vinton, Aaron Jr. 

Warren, Ralph 
West, John 
Wheeler, Gardner 
Wheeler, George G. 

Young, Isaiah A. 



Trowbridge, Henry E 
Turner, Henry 

U. 
Upham, Orne 

V. 

Vinton, Gray 

W. 

Wheeler, Robert 
Whowell, John 
Whyte, Oliver 
Woodward, David R. 

Y. 



H. G. HERRICK, 
Captain and Provost-Marshal, Sixth Dist. Mass. 

E. 

EXEMPTION PAPERS. 

Those citizens who had the pleasure of reading their names 
in the afternoon papers of July 13, 1863, as among the drafted, 
received soon afterwards a letter from the Provost-Marshal, 



286 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

notifying them of the fact, and to appear before the Board of 
Enrollment at Lawrence, for examination. If not exempted 
for any cause, a choice was given the accepted person to furnish 
a substitute, or pay commutation money. The following is the 
form of receipt and certificate given in the latter case. 

Sixth Massachusetts Collection District. 

No. 121. 

Received at Haverhill, on the fourteenth day of August, 1863, 
from Osgood W. Upham, of Melrose, who was drafted into the 
service of the United States, on the thirteenth day of July, 1863, 
from the Sixth Congressional District of the State of Massa- 
chusetts, the sum of Three Hundred Dollars ($300), to obtain, 
under Section 13 of the "Act for enrolling and calling out the 
national forces, and for other purposes — approved March 3, 
1863," a discharge from further liability under the draft. 

Signed in triplicate. 

GEO. COGGSWELL, 
Receiver of Commutation Money. 

certificate of non-liability to be given by the board of 
enrollment. 
We, the subscribers, composing the Board of Enrollment of 
the Sixth District of the State of Massachusetts, provided for in 
Section 8, Act of Congress " for enrolling and calling out the 
national forces," approved March 3, 1863, hereby certify that 
Osgood W. Upham, of Melrose, Middlesex County, State of 
Massachusetts, having given satisfactory evidence that he is not 
properly subject to do military duty, as required by said act, by 
reason of having paid Three Hundred Dollars, is exempt from 
all liability to military duty for the term of the present draft. 

H. G. HERRICK, 
Provost- Marshal and Fres. Board of Eiirollment. 
P. E. DAVIS, 

Member of Board of Enrollment. 
J. L. SULLIVAN, JR., 

Surgeon of Board of Efirollmetit. 
Dated at Lawrence, this twentieth day of August, 1863. 



APPENDIX. 287 

When a substitute was furnished, or when exemption was 
granted for tlie various causes, except disability, the same 
kind of certificate was used, differing only in the reason given 
for exemption. For exemption from disability the following was 
the form. 

CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION FOR A DRAFTED PERSON ON 
ACCOUNT OF DISABILITY. 

This is to certify. That of Melrose, Middlesex County, 

State of Massachusetts, having been drafted, and claiming 
exemption on account of disability, has been carefully exam- 
ined, and is found to be unfit for military duty by reason of 

and, in consequence thereof, he is exempt from 

service under the present draft. 

H. G. HERRICK, 
Provost-Marshal and Pres. Board of Enrollment. 
P. E. DAVIS, 

Member of Board of Enrolbnent. 
J. L. SULLIVAN, JR., 

Surgeon of Board of Enrollment. 
Dated at Lawrence, this thirty-first of July, 1863. 

F. 

CERTIFICATE OF NON-LIABILITY TO BE GIVEN BY THE BOARD 
OF ENROLLMENT. 

We, the subscribers, composing the Board of Enrollment of 
the Sixth District of the State of Massachusetts, provided for 
in Section 8, Act of Congress, " for enrolling and calling out 
the national forces," approved Marcl> 3, 1863, hereby certify 
that George Emerson, 2d, of Melrose, of Middlesex County, 
State of Massachusetts, having given satisfactory evidence that 
he is not properly subject to do military duty, as required by 
said Act, and the Act approved Feb. 24, 1864, and July 4, 
1864, by reason of having furnished an acceptable substitute, is 



288 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

exempt from all liability to draft, not exceeding the time for 
which his substitute was enlisted, viz., three years. 

H. G. HERRICK, 
l^rovost-Marshal and Pres. Board of Enrollment. 

S. W. HOPKINSON, 

Member of Board of Enrollment. 

JOHN L. SULLIVAN, JR., 
Surgeon of Board of Enrollment. 

Dated at Lawrence, Mass., this twenty-third day of July, 1864. 

CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION OF THE SUBSTITUTE FURNISHED 
BY THE ABOVE, 

I, Samuel Wilson, of Nova Scotia, do hereby certify that I 

am not legally subject to enrollment or draft, under the Acts of 

Cono-ress for enrolling and calling out the national forces of the 

United States, and for the following reasons : That I am an 

alien and subject to the British Government. That I have never 

voted in, or declared my intention of becoming a citizen of the 

United States. 

SAMUEL WILSON. 

We, the subscribers, do hereby certify that we have such 
knowledge of said Samuel Wilson as to leave no doubt in our 
minds of the truth of his statement. 

JAMES KUHN, of Boston, 11 Clark Street. 

W. M. I. BOTHAM, of Boston, 9 F. H. Square. 

SUFFOLK, SS. 

Personally appeared the above named Samuel Wilson, James 
Kuhn, and W. M. I. Botham, and severally made oath that the 
above Certificate is correct and true, according to the best of 
their knowledge and belief. 

Dated at Boston, Mass., this twentieth day of July, 1864. 

[stamp.] 
THATCHER C. HATCH, 

Justice of the Peace. 



APPENDIX. 



289 



G. 

RECEIPT AND CERTIFICATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE RECRUIT. 

Conivw7iwealth of Massachusetts. 

Treasurer's Office, Boston, Aug. i, 1864. 

Received of Daniel Russell of Melrose, One Hundred and 
Twenty-Five Dollars, for account of the Provost-MarshalGeneral 
of the State of Massachusetts, to be used for recruiting purposes 
under General Order No. 27, 1864, such recruit to be credited 
to the quota of Melrose. Representative Recruit. 

HENRY K. OLIVER, 

Treasurer. 
LEVI REED, Auditor. 



Commo7iwealth of Massachusttis. 

This is to certify that Daniel Russell of Melrose, in said 
Commonwealth, a citizen not liable to be drafted into the mili- 
tary service of the United States, has paid the sum of One 
Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars into the State Treasury, 
under General Order of Commonwealth, No. 27, dated July 14, 
A. D. 1864, to assist in recruiting the national armies, and has 
had assigned to him as his Representative Recruit, Private 
Davis Jones, Fifty-Eighth U. S. Colored Infantry. Enlisted 
under the Act of Congress providing for the recruitment of 
volunteers in the Rebellious States, approved July 4, A.D. 1864. 

Given under my hand, at the Head-Quarters of said Com- 
monwealth at Boston, this fourth day of January, one thousand 
eight hundred and sixty-five. 

JOHN A. ANDREW, 
Governor of Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

J. M. DAY, 

Colouel and Provost- Marshal of Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

37 



290 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

H. 

Provost-Marshal's Office, 
6th District, Mass., 
Lawrence, May 6, 1864. ) 

You are hereby informed that the Board of Enrollment of the 
Sixth District Massachusetts has appointed you an Enrolling 
Officer for the Sub-District, as follows, viz : No. 9, being the 
town of Melrose, at a compensation of three dollars per diem, 
for the time actually employed. 

You will immediately enter upon your duties, and complete 
the enrollment required under the amended Enrollment Act of 
Feb. 24, 1864, without the least delay. 

You will enroll, 

ist. All persons liable to draft whose names have been 
omitted in the former enrollment. These omissions you will 
learn by reference to the accompanying printed lists. 

2d. All persons who, since the former enrollment, and prior 
to this, shall have arrived at the age of twenty years. 

3d. All aliens who have declared their intention of becom- 
ing citizens, and not heretofore enrolled. 

4th. All persons discharged from the military or naval service 
of the United States, who have not been in such service two 
years during the present war, whether lieretofore enrolled or 
not; except those borne upon the printed lists. 

5th. You will enroll, upon separate sheets, the names of any 
and all persons whose names are borne on the printed lists, who 
shall have arrived at the age of forty-five at the time of the com- 
pletion of your enrollment. 

6th. You will return, on a separate sheet, the names of all 
persons borne on the printed list, who are now in the service, 
stating as far as you are able, their regiment and company, and 
all who have died, 

H. G. HERRICK, CapL and Fro.-Mar.,) Board 
S. W. HOPKINSON, Com'r, \ of 

JOHN L. SULLIVAN, JR., ^wr^d^^;;/, ) Enrollment. 

To Mr. Stephen Shelton, Melrose, Mass. 



. ' APPENDIX. 291 

I. 

DISCHARGE PAPERS. 
ARMY. 

To all lohom it may concern. 

V 

[Vignette : Eagle standing on shield, surrounded with flags and stars.] 
Know ye, That Moses S. Page, a Private of Captain Frank 
H. Whitcomb's Company (E) Sixth Regiment of Infantry, 
Massachusetts Volunteers, who was enrolled on the fifteenth 
day of July, 1864, to serve one hundred days, is hereby dis- 
charged from the service of the United States, this twenty- 
seventh day of October, 1864, at Readville, Massachusetts, by 
reason of term of enlistment having expired. (No objection to 
his being re-enlisted is known to exist.) 

Said Moses S. Page was born in Haverhill, in the State of 
New Hampshire, is twenty-six years of age, fi\e feet eight and 
one-half inches high, light complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, 
and by occupation, when enrolled, a Broker. 

Given at Readville, this twenty-seventh day of October, 1864. 
J. W. MEANS, 
First Lieutenant Eighth Infantry, U. S. M. O. 
FRANK H. WHrrCOMB, 
Captain Cojjid'g. Co. E, Sixth Mass. Rcg't. 

NAVY. 

United States of America. 

[Vignette : War vessels at sea.] 

Navy Department. 

The war for the preservation of the Union having, under 

the beneficent guidance of Almighty God, been brought to a 

successful termination, a reduction of the naval force becomes 

necessary. 

Having served with fidelity in the United States Navy from 
the fourteenth day of November, 1862, to the present date, you 



292 THE MELROSE MEMORIAL. 

are hereby honorably discharged with the tlianks of the Depart- 
ment. 

Given under my hand and seal of the Navy Department, at 
the City of Washington, this twentieth day of September, 1865. 

GIDEON WELLES, 

Secretary of the Navy. 

( SEAL OF THE NAVY ) 
( DEPARTMENT. J 

JAMES F. PERKINS, 

Acting Ensign U. S. Navy, 

Melrose, Mass. 

J. 

ACTION OF THE TOWN, 
NOV. 3, 1868. 

Hon. Samuel E Sewall offered the following resolution, which 
was unanimously adopted : 

That the Selectmen be authorized to subscribe and pay for a. sufficient 
number of copies of Mr. Elbridge H. Goss' work, entitled " The Melrose 
Memorial : The Annals of Melrose, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, 
during the Great Rebellion of 1861-5," to furnish a copy to every inhab- 
itant of this town who served as a soldier or sailor in the Rebellion, now 
living, and a copy for the family of each of said soldiers and sailors as have 
deceased ; also for twenty-five additional copies for the town, any of which may 
be given to public libraries at the discretion of the Selectmen. 

And on motion of Hon. Daniel W. Gooch, it was voted that 
the following inscription be embossed in gilt letters on the cover 
of each copy thus given : 

Presented to — (name of soldier or sailor) — by the Town of Melrose, in 
recognition of his services during the Great Rebellion of 1861 r 5. 



ERRATA. 

Page 100 — For Bodwell, Daniel A., read Henry A. 
" 175 — For James S. Macey, read John S. Macey. 
" 243 — Omitted in List of Officers in the Navy : 
Smith W. Nichols, Jr. Midshipman, Sept. 27, 1858; Lieutenant, Feb. 

21,1863; Lieutenant Commander, July 25, 1866. 
Page 256 — Omitted in Alphabetical Roll: 

Jones, J. Wesley, 12th U. S. Inf. ist Lieut. 



